US09137923B2
A portable device which incorporates a body unit and a display unit incorporating a display screen formed on the front surface and/or the rear surface. The body unit includes sidewalls formed projecting forwards from the left and right side surfaces of the body unit so as to allow the display unit to rest in a stable fashion. Each sidewall of the body unit has a holding member of which one end is secured to one region of the sidewall. A portion of the holding member is positioned inside the display unit. A movement hole is formed in the side surface of the display unit. A portion of the holding member passes through the movement hole so as to allow the display unit to slide on the main body.
US09137922B2
A drawer and a server using the same are provided. The drawer is configured for a node of a server. The drawer includes a bottom plate and a bezel. The bottom plate is configured for disposing a circuit board. The bezel is disposed at one side of the bottom plate. The bezel includes a body and a door structure connected to the body. The door structure can be opened to open an opening, such that the node is accessible through the opening. The door structure can be closed to shut the opening, such that the bezel works as an electrostatic shield of the circuit board.
US09137919B2
An inverter includes an upper and lower housing part and electronic components arranged in the upper and lower housing parts. The components are electrically connected to one another in a releasable manner by means of a contact-making system formed from two parts. In order to produce an electrical and mechanical connection by means of a pivoting movement, the upper housing part is connected to the lower housing part in a manually detachable manner by means of a rotating element which forms an axis of rotation for a circle arc. In the upper and lower housing parts, a part of the contact-making system is respectively arranged along the circle arc in such a way that these parts, during a pivoting movement of the upper housing part relative to the lower housing part into an operating position, can be automatically electrically-connected, with the housing parts connected.
US09137912B1
A casing of an electronic device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The manufacturing method of casing of the electronic device includes following steps: providing a casing body, in which the surface of the casing body includes a first material region and a second material region, and the materials of the first material region and the second material region are different from each other; providing a decorative material on the surface of the casing body, in which the decorative material overlays whole the first material region and at least partial the second material region; and adhering a tape on the decorative material, followed by tearing off the tape to remove the decorative material located at the second material region but remain the decorative material located at the first material region.
US09137911B2
A lock that is configured to be attached to electronic equipment requiring securing against theft and the lock comprising: a lock body; a locking element protruding from the lock body and having a forward distal section that is comparatively wider in cross-sectional size compared to a rear section thereof, the forward section being configured to be insertable into a cavity formed in the equipment, where the cavity is defined by an opening having a size and shape slightly larger than the cross-sectional size of the forward section of the locking element and an interior larger in cross-sectional size than the opening of the cavity; a slidable locking pin configured to slide alongside the locking element and into the cavity, after the locking element has been inserted into said cavity, to substantially fill a space of the cavity left unoccupied by the locking element; a sliding mechanism coupled to the locking pin and configured to slide the locking pin into and out of the cavity; and a locking mechanism to lock the locking mechanism within the lock body to prevent withdrawal of the locking element from the cavity.
US09137907B2
An electronic device includes a main body, a display, and a support element. The support element has one end being connected pivotally to the display and the other end being connected pivotally to the main body. The support element includes a first connecting member, a second connecting member, and a control device. The control device is used to control the connecting relationship among the display, the first connecting member and the second connecting member, so as the freedom degree of the position relationship between the display and the main body is adjustable.
US09137887B2
A printed circuit board including first and second signal pads located on a top surface of the printed circuit board and arranged to transmit a first differential signal, first and second signal vias extending through the printed circuit board and arranged to transmit the first differential signal, and a first ground plane located on a layer below the top surface of the printed circuit board and including an antipad that encompasses the first and second signal pads and the first and second signal vias when viewed in plan.
US09137885B2
Intermittent short-circuit control is performed in the ignition mode, thereby allowing short-circuit current to flow in the current source step-down type chopper. Energy of the short-circuit current is temporarily accumulated in the inductor provided in the current source step-down type chopper. The accumulated energy boosts the output voltage from the direct current power supply device during the period until the next short circuiting, via the current, the multiphase inverter, and the rectifier. The voltage boosting operation where accumulation of the current energy by short circuiting and boosting of the output voltage by conduction are repeated, controls an increase of the output voltage which is applied to the plasma generator.
US09137881B2
A discharge lamp lighting device having a discharge lamp which has a pair of tungsten-made electrodes each having a protrusion formed at the tip thereof and an electric power feeding device which feeds an alternate current electric power to the discharge lamp, and is characterized in that the power feeding device has a function of switching between a first lighting mode in which a rated electric power is fed to the discharge lamp and a second lighting mode in which a lower electric power than the rated electric power is fed to the discharge lamp to light the discharge lamp, and therefore, can control electric power to be fed to the discharge lamp under such conditions that the average electric power change rate becomes 0.01-2.1 W/s during a mode switching period in which the switching from the first lighting mode into the second lighting mode is carried out.
US09137876B2
A lighting system with reduced standby power according to the embodiment includes a main control unit to control a lighting device; a driver to supply the control signal to the lighting device; and an AC-DC converting circuit to supply power to the driver. A method of reducing standby power according to the embodiment includes charging a standby power supply unit with power in a normal mode; checking whether a lighting off signal is transmitted and switching off a lighting, and simultaneously, shutting off the power supplied from the AC-DC converting circuit when the lighting off signal is transmitted; changing an operation mode of a lighting device from a normal mode to a standby mode; checking whether a voltage of the standby power supply unit is less than a predetermined level; and charging the standby power supply unit when the voltage is less than the predetermined level.
US09137875B2
In a method for operating at least one light emitting diode the at least one light emitting diode is operated at least in some ranges by means of a pulse number modulation, in which a number of uniform current pulses is set within a predetermined interval duration depending on a light energy desired value.
US09137873B2
The present disclosure relates to a lighting device that employs at least one string of LEDs as a lighting source. The string of LEDs is coupled in series with a first switch, wherein the string of LEDs and the first switch are coupled between a power supply node and ground. During a normal operation mode, a system controller is configured to operate the first switch to deliver a drive current to the string of LEDs from the power supply node. The system controller is associated with circuitry that allows the system controller to monitor the drive current and determine when an overcurrent condition occurs. Upon detecting the overcurrent condition, the system controller will open the first switch to stop the drive current from flowing through the string of LEDs.
US09137863B2
An illumination device power control module is capable of dynamically adjusting power consumption of a light-emitting diode (LED) illumination device by adjusting the output voltage to different levels to control the power of the light emitting diode illumination device. An alternating current power source terminal is configured to receive an alternating current voltage. A rectifier is configured to convert the alternating current voltage to a rectified voltage.
US09137856B2
An apparatus and method for unfreezing a window from a window seal are disclosed. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the apparatus includes a vehicle door assembly including a vehicle door and a window. The apparatus further includes a window seal that receives an upper edge of the window and a heating element coupled to the upper edge or the window seal. The system further includes a power source that provides an electrical current to the heating element and a control module configured to receive a remote unlock signal from a remote device, obtain a temperature signal indicating a temperature in response to the remote unlock signal, compare the temperature indicated by the temperature signal to a temperature threshold, and cause the power source to provide the electrical current to the heating element when the temperature is less than the temperature threshold.
US09137854B2
A method, performed by a network device, may include generating a virtual Layer 3 device for a customer's network. The method may further include establishing a Layer 2 connection between the customer's network and the generated virtual Layer 3 device; establishing a Layer 3 connection between the generated virtual Layer 3 device and a Layer 3 network; and configuring the generated virtual Layer 3 device to function as an edge router for the customer's network.
US09137844B2
A method and apparatus for a wireless communication system, sends an initial connection request with the device capabilities of an indicated mobile station. The device capabilities comprise both semi-static capabilities and dynamic capabilities. The semi-static capabilities are stored in the core network. Data is transmitted via a wireless node before the mobile station transitions to an idle state. When transitioning back to an active state from the idle state when the semi-static capabilities have not changed, a connection request is sent with the dynamic capabilities of the user equipment without also transmitting the semi-static mobile station capabilities to the wireless node.
US09137843B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling bearer related resources by a policy and charging system in a communication network and a node for controlling bearer related resources, as well as to a system comprising the node, and to a computer program configured to make effective use of bearer resources of a telecommunication network. The method for controlling bearer related resources by a policy and charging system in a communication network comprises the steps of obtaining, at a network node, bearer support information indicating whether a user equipment, UE, supports a dedicated bearer of a plurality of bearers, which is a bearer dedicated to a service session; setting a time period for the service session according to the obtained bearer support information; and instructing a modification of a reserved bearer resource assigned to the service session when the set time period expires.
US09137833B2
A core network includes a PDN connection holding unit that associates and stores information regarding PDN connection with information indicating an address block configured as a set of a plurality of addresses identifying a plurality of the information terminal devices. Therefore, it is possible to suppress an increase in the processing load and a limitation of providable services, even in the case in which an ad-hoc network is formed between a mobile terminal device and a plurality of terminal equipments and a PDN connection is made by the terminal equipments using the mobile terminal device as an MT.
US09137827B1
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for dynamically adjusting preambles for a random access channel. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, for a wireless access node having a random access channel, determining a demand for contention based preambles of the random access channel and a demand for contention free preambles of the random access channel. The method further provides determining a number of contention based preambles and a number of contention free preambles for the random access channel based on the demand for contention based preambles and the demand for contention free preambles. The method also provides allocating the number of contention based preambles and the number of contention free preambles to the random access channel.
US09137823B1
A system includes a medium access control device receiving data for N of M stations transmitted from an access point to the N stations. A multicast module determines whether the received data includes first data, and to which grouping(s) of the M stations the access point is to transmit the first data. A unicast module determines whether the received data includes second data, and to which ones of the N stations the access point is to transmit the second data. A bitmap module generates a PVB including a first identifier for the grouping(s) of the M stations and second identifiers for the ones of the N stations. A segmentation module generates segmentation information indicating whether to divide the PVB into fragments. A message control module transmits a TIM indicating bit states of the first identifier and the second identifiers to ones of the N stations based on the segmentation information.
US09137802B2
Techniques for scheduling UEs are described. In one design, a scheduler (e.g., for a cell) may receive channel direction information (CDI) and channel strength information (CSI) from a plurality of UEs. In one design, the CDI from each UE may include at least one eigenvector, and the CSI from each UE may include at least one singular value corresponding to the at least one eigenvector. The scheduler may schedule at least one UE among the plurality of UEs for data transmission based on the CDI and CSI from the plurality of UEs. The scheduler may select the at least one UE based on a metric related to signal-to-leakage ratio (SLR), or spectral efficiency, etc. In one design, the scheduler may evaluate the performance of different sets of UEs to determine whether to schedule one UE for single-user MIMO or multiple UEs for multi-user MIMO.
US09137799B2
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for implementing spatial multiplexing in conjunction with the one or more multiple access protocols during the broadcast of information in a wireless network. A subscriber unit for use in a cellular system is disclosed. The subscriber unit includes: spatially separate receivers, a spatial processor, and a combiner. The spatially separate receivers receive the assigned channel composite signals resulting from the spatially separate transmission of the subscriber downlink datastream(s). The spatial processor is configurable in response to a control signal transmitted by the base station to separate the composite signals into estimated substreams based on information obtained during the transmission of known data patterns from at least one of the base stations. The spatial processor signals the base stations when a change of a spatial transmission configuration is required. The combiner combines the estimated substreams into a corresponding subscriber datastream.
US09137796B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for monitoring scheduling information in a wireless communication system. A terminal monitors a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) having first scheduling information, and monitors a second PDCCH having second scheduling information based on the first scheduling information. The second scheduling information includes resource allocation for a plurality of serving cells.
US09137792B2
A method and an apparatus for utilizing multiple carriers are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) capable of receiving on a single downlink carrier at a time may tune the receiver to one downlink carrier and switch the downlink carrier in accordance with a configured pattern. The WTRU may switch the carrier from an anchor carrier to a non-anchor carrier at a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) sub-frame boundary, and switches back at an end of a subsequent high speed physical downlink shared channel (HS-PDSCH) subframe. The WTRU may switch the carrier at an HS-PDSCH sub-frame boundary. A WTRU capable of receiving on multiple downlink carriers simultaneously may tune the receiver to an anchor carrier and a supplementary carrier, and switch the supplementary carrier to another carrier based on a carrier switching order. The carrier switching order may be received via an HS-SCCH or via layer 2 signaling.
US09137783B2
A radio communication terminal device includes a storage unit that stores group information indicating a group of frequencies belonging to the same communication carrier, a communication-carrier searching unit that selects one of to-be-selected frequencies, the to-be-selected frequencies being frequencies at which radio waves arrive, and that searches for a communication carrier using the selected frequency on a basis of identification information received at the selected frequency, and a search-execution controlling unit that excludes, from the to-be-selected frequencies, another frequency that belongs to the group information including the selected frequency and that is other than the selected frequency.
US09137778B2
Systems and methods for low overhead paging in a wireless communications network are described herein. In some aspects, an apparatus for wireless communication includes a receiver and a processor. The receiver receives a request from a first device. The request indicates a first period of a plurality of periods corresponding to a periodicity for transmitting paging messages. The processor assigns the first device to a group scheduled to receive paging messages at most every first period based on the request and determines a start time for transmitting paging messages to the first device based on schedules for transmitting paging messages to a plurality of other devices. In other aspects, an apparatus for wireless communication includes a processor and memory. The processor derives an information sub-unit from an information unit associated with a paging message, compresses the information sub-unit, and generates a second information unit associated with the method of compression.
US09137776B2
A method and system for changing modes for ultrasonic locationing of a mobile device includes transmitting ultrasonic pulses using a transmit schedule by fixed ultrasonic emitters. When a fixed access point begins serving a new mobile device, those ultrasonic emitters proximal to the access point are deactivated and associated microphones are activated to receive an acoustic tone from the new mobile device. This acoustic tone is used to establish an initial location of the new mobile device using measurements of the received acoustic tone at each proximal microphone. The transmit schedule is adapted to accommodate the new mobile device at the initial location, and the proximal ultrasonic emitters are returned to transmit mode. In this way, an accurate starting position of the new mobile device is established without greatly interrupting other mobile devices that are currently being located.
US09137773B2
A method, computing device and computer readable memory for cooperative localization of a portable electronic device is provided. Location identification messages are received each providing a known location of a respective portable electronic device and an associated transmitter identification (ID) of the respective portable electronic device and stored. Location request messages providing one or more transmitter IDs in communication range with a query portable electronic device and a transmitter ID of the query portable electronic device are received and location information from the stored location information associated with the one or more transmitter IDs received in the location request message is retrieved. A location of the query portable electronic device is estimated based on the retrieved location information and stored with the associated transmitter ID of the query portable electronic device.
US09137769B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for M2M devices in an idle mode to perform a network reentry procedure in a wireless access network supporting machine-to-machine communication (M2M), and the method may include receiving information related to selection of a group delegate (GD) from a base station; receiving a response to a ranging request from the base station, wherein the ranging request is transmitted by an M2M device which is selected as the GD among a plurality of M2M devices in an M2M device group based on the information related to selection of the GD; and performing a network reentry procedure on the basis of the received response.
US09137756B2
The present invention discloses a method for sending/acquiring a SIR target value and a Serving Radio Network Control. The above sending method comprises: a Serving Radio Network Control (SRNC) sending an outer loop power control frame to a Node B, wherein the outer loop power control frame carries carrier identification information and a SIR Target value of a carrier corresponding to the carrier identification information. The above acquiring method comprises: a Node B receiving an outer loop power control frame sent by a Serving Radio Network Control (SRNC) and acquiring carrier identification information and a SIR Target value of a carrier corresponding to the carrier identification information from the outer loop power control frame; and the Node B updating a SIR Target value of the carrier corresponding to the carrier identification information to be the SIR Target value. By means of the present invention, uplink N carrier HSUPA functions can be ensured to be performed correctly and reasonably, and the Node B is enabled to perform power control to independent uplink transmission in an N carrier system.
US09137750B2
In an example embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus comprising a first transmitter, a second transmitter, and logic coupled to the first transmitter and the second transmitter. The logic is operable to limit a time period the second transmitter is able to transmit while the first transmitter is transmitting.
US09137746B2
A mobile terminal, program and method for use in a communication system comprising a first, packet-based network and a plurality of wireless access networks providing access to the first network. The mobile terminal is configured to maintain a log of user habits in terms of past availability or use of one or more of the access networks, e.g. relative to time of day, week, month and/or year. The mobile terminal is further configured to control activation the transceiver to scan for subsequent availability of one or more of the wireless access networks, in dependence on the comparison of the one or more identified times with the current time. The mobile terminal switches between a first mode in which the scanning is controlled in dependence on the current geographical location of the mobile terminal, and a second mode in which the scanning is controlled in dependence on said log.
US09137745B2
A system, method and computer product for a mobile station to locate a femto cell, the method comprising: (a) storing in a database information to locate at least one femto cell; (b) receiving, from at least one macro cell, location information of the UE; (c) searching within the database to determine if the UE is in a general proximity of at least one femto cell; (d) if so, accessing the femto cell using the database information corresponding to the femto cell.
US09137740B2
Systems and methods of providing network access information from one or more servers to a wireless device. The wireless device acquires information from the servers about available networks at a current location of the wireless device. The network information is based on a plurality of device parameters, network parameters and regulatory requirements that govern the operation of the wireless device. In addition, the wireless device may assess the acquired information for suitability for communications to be carried out by the wireless device.
US09137735B2
Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for distributing wireless local area network (WLAN) access information to a wireless communication device based on a current coverage area that the wireless communication device is located in. A location services server can determine, based on a current location of the wireless communication device, a current coverage area of the wireless communication device, and transmit information identifying the current coverage area to a directory services server. Based on the current coverage area, the public safety directory services server can determine relevant WLAN access information for the current coverage area, and transmit a message to the wireless communication device that includes the relevant WLAN access information.
US09137734B2
A computing device's settings, specifically audio or video settings are adjusted based on a status and/or location of an event participant carrying the device. An event coordination service or an application on the computing device may match the participant's status and location to event location information. Upon matching either status or location, the computing device's settings may be modified to prevent audio feedback by any audio equipment at the event location or similar video interference.
US09137732B2
A base station device includes: an information collection unit configured to collect information for calculating evaluation values for each of first, second, and third transmission paths; an evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate the evaluation values for each of the first, second, and third transmission paths, based on the collected information; and a transmission path selection unit configured to select, using the evaluation values of each of the first, second, and third transmission paths, a transmission path to be used by a mobile communication terminal.
US09137722B2
A base station includes a system information creating unit that creates first system information for barring communication and second system information for not barring; a timing determination unit that classifies user equipment into groups based on timings of the user equipment being in an idle mode to be activated in every discontinuous reception period, and that determines, for each of the groups, a timing of transmitting a paging signal; and a transmitter that transmits the paging signal to the user equipment of some of the groups, and subsequently the first system information; that switches transmission of the first and second system information, so that a ratio between a number of transmitting the first system information and that of the second system information corresponds to a barring ratio; and that transmits the paging signal to the user equipment of the some of the groups, and subsequently the second system information.
US09137721B2
Radio base stations connect by radio lines with radio terminals in cells that make up each radio base station and relay data communication realized by the radio terminals on bearers on radio lines. Base station controllers record correspondence information of the data flow of data communication with the radio terminals and the bearers on the radio lines and, by referring to the correspondence information, effects termination of data communication with the radio terminals. When, in a state in which a drift base station controller relays and transfers data communication between radio base stations to which the radio terminals are connected and a serving base station controller, the serving base station controller is transferred to the drift base station controller, the plurality of base station controllers then report to the drift base station controller the correspondence information from the serving base station controller.
US09137718B2
A method for cell reselection by a wireless communication device is described. The method includes camping on a serving cell in idle mode. A neighbor cell is detected. A serving cell rank is computed for the serving cell. A neighbor cell rank is computed for the neighbor cell based on multimedia broadcast multicast service metrics. Cell reselection is determined based on the serving cell rank and the neighbor cell rank.
US09137716B1
Systems, methods, and software for selecting frequency bands in wireless communication networks are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes, in the wireless communication device, exchanging wireless communications with the wireless network over the throughput frequency band, tracking mobility status of the wireless communication device to determine if the mobility status satisfies a mobility condition, and responsively transferring a mobility mode indication to the wireless network. The method also includes, in the wireless network, receiving the mobility mode indication and transitioning the wireless communication device to the mobility frequency band from the throughput frequency band. The method also includes, in the wireless communication device, responsive to transitioning from the throughput frequency band to the mobility frequency band, exchanging wireless communications with the wireless network over the mobility frequency band.
US09137714B2
A method comprises receiving from a plurality of user equipment signal information for at least one cell, and using said information to determine if a candidate cell is to enter a reduced power mode.
US09137705B2
An apparatus comprising a home agent (HA) configured to initiate a flow binding operation for a mobile node (MN) by sending a first message to the MN and receiving a second message from the MN, wherein the first message indicates the flow binding operation to the MN, and wherein the MN returns the second message to the HA in response to the first message. Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a first message from a HA to initiate a flow binding operation for a flow, and sending a second message to the HA. Included is a method comprising transmitting to a MN a flow binding message to perform a flow binding action for the MN.
US09137703B2
A method of handling a data packet stream at different communication protocol layer levels of a communication protocol layer stack of an UMTS communication device is provided. The method comprises: Receiving a data packet stream at the communication device; Determining whether, in case of a loss of a data packet of the data packet stream, it is possible to retransmit the lost data packet to the communication device; and immediately transmitting data packets of the data packet stream succeeding the lost data packet from a MAC protocol layer level to a RLC protocol layer level if it is determined that the lost data packet cannot be retransmitted to the communication device, and otherwise storing data packets of the data packet stream succeeding the lost data packet for a third period of time at the MAC protocol layer level, which third period of time is longer than the second time period.
US09137700B2
A method for alleviation of congestion in a mobile communications network includes detecting congested cells in the mobile communications network, identifying subscribers with active data sessions in the congested cells; and optimizing band-width usage for at least one of the identified subscribers. A bandwidth optimization system includes a network sampling interface to receive at least subscriber, cell and data session identifiers from a network data packet sampler, where the sampler identifies the identifiers from internal data traffic within a mobile communications network, and a network awareness engine (NAE) to at least cross reference the identifiers with external data traffic output by the mobile communications network to at least detect congested cells and associated subscriber data sessions emanating from the mobile communications network.
US09137687B2
The various embodiments include a dual-SIM-dual-active (DSDA) device and methods for implementing pipelining of operation registration data and conflict checking to predict radio frequency co-existence interference between two subscriptions operating on the DSDA device. The DSDA device may predict when a subscription (the “aggressor”) de-senses the other subscription (the “victim”) as a result of the aggressor's scheduled operations, by analyzing the conflicting operation registration data prior to the scheduled operation execution time. The operation registration data is received and analyzed close in time to the scheduled execution of the operation to limit the possibility of changes in the operation schedule and registration data.
US09137678B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for annotating search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a notification request, the notification request for identifying when to send a notification from the server system to a device, the notification request includes a device identifier, message text, and a location identifier. The method also includes receiving information corresponding to a current location of the device and information corresponding to an identity of the device. The method also includes determining that the information corresponding to the current location corresponds to the location identifier of the device from the notification request and that the information corresponding to the identity of the device corresponds to the device identifier from the notification request. The method also includes sending the notification, including the message text, to the device.
US09137676B2
The invention relates to a method in a base station serving a cell, the base station using a frequency bandwidth and comprising an antenna arrangement and a controller. The antenna arrangement comprises a number of antenna devices and a beamformer. The method comprises the steps of: associating, in the beamformer, at least a first and a second frequency band with a respective first and a second beam, each frequency band comprising a part of the frequency bandwidth used by the base station; dynamically determining, in the controller, a degree of utilization of the at least first and second frequency bands within the at least first and second beam; and re-associating, in the beamformer, the at least first and second frequency bands with the first and second beam, based on the determined degree of utilization of frequency bands. The invention also relates to base stations, computer programs and computer program products.
US09137670B2
A management of wireless and wired computer network environments in which rogue and other devices that may affect the performance and/or security of the wireless computer network can be detected. Specifically, the present invention discloses a method and system of detecting all interfaces, Media Access Control (MAC) addresses and radio MAC addresses (BSSIDs) affiliated with a rogue device and compiling this information into a database. As a result, the present invention reduces the number of alerts that one rogue device can generate and increases the accuracy and speed of locating the rogue device within a network.
US09137667B1
Visual voicemail enables a user to view a list of voicemail messages and caller information, and select which messages to hear. Currently, a handset accesses visual voicemail using a web interface over a point-to-point network connection with an intermediary gateway. The gateway initiates requests to the voicemail platform on behalf of the handset using a single generic password. There is no direct authentication between the handset client and the voicemail platform. In an embodiment of the invention, the handset requests a password from the voicemail platform using the web interface. The voicemail platform sends a password to the handset via a Short Message Service text message, which is an inherently secure means of communication. The handset then uses the password to request voicemail data from the voicemail platform via the web interface.
US09137663B2
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, responsive to a triggering event, one or more radio frequency (RF) firewall transceivers that neighbor a data wireless access point to which a given wireless client is communicating; configuring one or more of the identified neighboring RF firewall transceivers to detect RF frames transmitted by the wireless client; causing the data wireless access point to transmit one or more wireless messages operative to cause the wireless client to transmit RF frames; collecting RF signal data corresponding to the RF frames transduced by one or more of the identified neighboring RF firewall transceivers; transmitting the collected RF signal data to a location system; receiving from the location system an indication of the location of the wireless client; and applying one or more network access policies based on the indication of the location.
US09137662B2
A method and apparatus are provided for access credential provisioning. A method may include receiving, at a first mobile apparatus, information about a second mobile apparatus. The first mobile apparatus may be provisioned with network access credential information to be transferred from the first mobile apparatus to the second mobile apparatus. The method may further include causing the information about the second mobile apparatus to be provided to a provisioning apparatus for the network. The method may additionally include receiving authorization form the provisioning apparatus to transfer the network access credential information from the first mobile apparatus to the second mobile apparatus. The method may also include, in response to receipt of the authorization, causing the network access credential information to be provided to the second mobile apparatus. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.
US09137661B2
An authentication method for user equipment (UE) and LIPA network entities is applicable to a cross-LIPA communication environment having an UE end, a visiting LIPA network entity end (LIPAV), and a home LIPA network entity end (LIPAH). The UE end successfully registers to a core network (CN) via the LIPAV, thereby attaining mutual trust relationship between the UE end and the LIPAV. The UE end successfully registers to the CN via the LIPAH, thereby attaining mutual trust relationship between the UE end and the LIPAH. The LIPAH requests the UE end via the LIPAV for successfully re-authenticating the CN, thereby attaining mutual trust relationship between the LIPAV and the LIPAH.
US09137660B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for authentication processing, a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Authentication, and Authorization Accounting (AAA) server, and a User Equipment (UE). The method includes: receiving an authentication request message that carries authentication mode indication information; determining an authentication mode according to the authentication mode indication information; and performing authentication processing according to the authentication mode. The system for authentication processing includes the 3GPP AAA server and a network device which enables the UE to access the 3GPP AAA server through the network device. Through the method and the system for authentication processing, the 3GPP AAA server and the UE provided herein, the authentication request message sent by the UE carries the authentication mode indication information which has different parameter values so that the 3GPP AAA server can distinguish different authentication modes and perform the authentication processing according to the determined authentication mode.
US09137647B2
In a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, a data message from an M2M device is received over a mobile communication network at a server. The received data message includes a Mobile Station Identifier (MSID) number of the M2M device; GPS coordinates of the M2M device determined by the M2M device; and utility usage information. A utility account is identified based on the MSID. The distance between a pre-programmed location of the M2M device and the GPS coordinates received from the M2M device is calculated. The utility usage information is stored in the memory of the server upon determining that the distance is within a predetermined threshold.
US09137646B2
A system and method for providing advanced voice services in a wireless communications network. The system includes at least one server that exchanges messages with mobile units, in order to indicate that a user is neither online or offline, but is temporarily unreachable or unavailable. The user may be temporarily unreachable or unavailable due to connectivity issues with the user's mobile unit in the wireless communications network. Presence information for the user is distributed from the server to watchers, wherein the presence information indicates that the user is offline when the user is temporarily unreachable or unavailable. Various techniques may be implemented to determine how long the user's mobile unit must remain connected to the wireless communications network, before the presence information indicates that the user is online.
US09137640B2
Techniques where a computer system is able to obtain information about a subject by communicating with a device that employs a limited range communication technology and is associated with the subject are described.
US09137638B1
A system for evaluating a physical location of a node in a network comprising a multi-axis accelerometer installed in proximity to the node and in a deterministic spacial orientation, and/or a controller configured to receive an acceleration vector associated with the multi-axis accelerometer and to evaluate the orientation of the node based on the received acceleration vector in comparison to a reference acceleration vector known to the controller and a look-up table in memory configured to contain the logical function and a node location identifier for each spatial orientation. The node may comprise a system component.
US09137629B2
Various embodiments of systems and techniques for providing location-based services (LBS) to a mobile computing device having a dual processor architecture are described. In one or more embodiments, the mobile computing device may comprise or implement hardware and/or software configured to enable LBS and data communications sessions using a single active data stack at any particular point in time. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09137627B2
Tools (systems, apparatuses, methodologies, computer program products, etc.) for pairing electronic devices including touchscreen-enabled electronic devices, and for facilitating communication between paired electronic devices.
US09137607B2
A surround suspension system for a low profile loudspeaker transducer having a former, diaphragm, and loudspeaker magnet assembly, wherein the former is connected to a voice coil and a upper end of the former that is opposite the voice coil is shown. The loudspeaker magnet assembly includes an annular outer magnet having a top surface and the surround suspension system may include a surround suspension member. The surround suspension member includes an outer edge that is attached to the top surface of the annular outer magnet, and inner edge that is attached to the upper end of the former.
US09137605B2
An acoustic apparatus includes a top assembly and a bottom assembly. The bottom assembly is coupled to the top assembly to form an overall assembly. A diaphragm assembly is disposed in the overall assembly so as to separate the overall assembly into a front volume and a back volume. The diaphragm assembly includes a frame and the frame has a first end, a second end, and a middle portion that is disposed between the first end and the second end. The first end and the second end are not in the same plane as the middle portion. The first end is coupled to the bottom assembly and the second end is coupled to the top assembly.
US09137602B2
A system includes a housing, a speaker included in the housing, and a first transceiver to wirelessly transmit and receive audio content and control information. The speaker is able to produce audible signals from the audio content received by the transceiver.
US09137593B2
A loudspeaker in which a magnetic particle filter is provided in the vicinity of a sound outlet port.
US09137589B2
Network device management using an RFID system. In one example embodiment, a method of determining the status of a network device may include communicating between a host computing device and a network device, communicating between the host computing device and an RFID reader, storing one or more status parameters of the network device in an RFID tag that is coupled to the network device, sending an interrogation signal from the RFID reader to an RFID tag, receiving the one or more status parameters from the RFID tag at the RFID reader, receiving the one or more status parameters from the RFID reader at the host computing device, storing the one or more status parameters in a database at the host computing device, and displaying the one or more status parameters to a user that is located remote from the predetermined location of the network device.
US09137583B2
The present invention relates to a method for securing indirect return channel and mobile digital broadcast receiver, and more particularly, to a method for securing the indirect return channel for mobile digital broadcast receiver without internal Internet access capabilities by enabling indirect access to Internet using external Internet devices having internal Internet access capabilities, and a mobile digital broadcast receiver securing indirect return channel using external Internet devices with internal Internet access capabilities.
US09137578B2
A method includes supplying a video stream to a primary display device, detecting an information request associated with the video stream, identifying a portion of the video stream corresponding to the time of detecting, supplying to a secondary display device choices corresponding to the information request, receiving selected choices and supplying to the secondary display device information corresponding to the selected choices.
US09137569B2
This disclosure describes techniques for obtaining one or more video capture parameters associated with a video capture device and using the obtained video capture parameters to control a video decoding process. The obtained video capture parameters may be, for example, parameters associated with auto exposure control (AE), auto focus (AF), and auto white balance (AWB), zooming, motion in captured frames, and the like. The video encoding device may embed the video capture parameters in the encoded video bit stream such that a decoder may utilize the camera parameters during frame rate up-conversion.
US09137561B2
Implementations of independent temporally concurrent video stream coding may include generating a sequence of encoded frames by encoding a plurality of input frames, wherein encoding the plurality of input frames may include generating a first plurality of encoded frames based on the plurality of input frames, the first plurality of encoded frames including a first plurality of intra-coded frames and a first plurality of inter-coded frames, and independently generating a second plurality of encoded frames based on the plurality of input frames, wherein the second plurality of encoded frames includes a second plurality of intra-coded frames and a second plurality of inter-coded frames, such that the first plurality of encoded frames and the second plurality of encoded frames are temporally concurrent, and such that the intra-coded frames from the second plurality of intra-coded frames are temporally nonconcurrent with the intra-coded frames from the first plurality of intra-coded frame.
US09137558B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including identifying a presentation of a first media item. From sensing data, a behavior of an audience member and a characteristic of an environment in a vicinity of the audience member are determined. A tuning status is monitored by which the media processor remains tuned to a first media item or tunes away to a second media item. A first correlation value is determined between the characteristic of the first audience member and subject matter of the first media item, and a second correlation value is determined between the characteristic of the first audience member and the characteristic of the environment. Responsive to the second correlation value exceeding the first, a determination is made that the environment, not the subject matter being presented in the first media item, is responsible for the tuning status. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09137556B2
A system and method for communicating content to a user device includes a head end that communicates metadata for a plurality of content including the content titles. The system also includes the user device that generates a screen display comprising the plurality of content titles from the metadata and generates a selection corresponding to a first content title from a user interface, the user device adds metadata for the first content title to a queue and displays the queue in a priority order on the screen display. The user device is tuned to receive content corresponding to the first content title and stores the content in a storage device.
US09137543B2
A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding motion information. The encoding method includes determining whether motion information of spatial prediction units that are spatially collocated to a current prediction unit and motion information of temporal prediction units that are temporally collocated to the current prediction are available; when the number of the motion information of the spatial prediction units and the motion information of the temporal prediction units is less than a predetermined number, generating additional candidate motion information by using the available motion information of the spatial prediction units and the motion information of the temporal prediction units such that the total number of pieces of candidate motion information is the predetermined number; and decoding motion information of the current prediction unit by using the ‘n’ pieces of motion information.
US09137542B2
Synchronizing video content projected onto a transparent display with switching of pixels in the display. The transparent display has pixels capable of switching between a clear state to make portions of the display transparent and a hazy state to display the projected video. A decoder receives and decodes audio content associated with the video content in order to control the switching of the pixels in the display such that the video content is projected onto pixels in the hazy state.
US09137527B2
A wireless signal strength indication is displayed on a TV, representing the signal strength of a wireless link between the Internet and an Internet adapter module providing Internet video to the TV.
US09137517B2
Methods and devices for generating a stereoscopic image are described. In one aspect, the electronic device includes a main body and a support rotatably coupled with the main body about an axis of rotation. The support is rotatable between a plurality of positions including a first position and a second position. The electronic device also includes a first camera module for generating first camera data and a second camera module for generating second camera data. The second camera module is positioned in spaced relation to the first camera module and coupled to the support away from the axis of rotation. The electronic device further includes a controller coupled with the first camera module and the second camera module.
US09137513B2
A method and system are provided in which a video processor may select a 2D video output format or a 3D video output format. The video processor may generate composited video data by combining video data from a video source, and one or both of video data from additional video sources and graphics data from graphics source(s). The video processor may select the order in which such combination is to occur. The video data from the various video sources may comprise one or both of 2D video data and 3D video data. The graphics data from the graphics sources may comprise one or both of 2D graphics data and 3D graphics data. The video processor may perform 2D-to-3D and/or 3D-to-2D format conversion when appropriate to generate the composited video data in accordance with the selected output video format.
US09137508B2
In an information processor having a function to check out a content to a portable device such as a portable disc player, a content is recorded to a content data base under the control of a content management program, and it is set under the control of a display/operation instruction program whether the recorded content has to be checked out to the portable device. If a content is recorded in case it has been set that the content has to be checked out, the content having been recorded in the content data base is checked out to the portable device.
US09137507B2
Consumer electronic devices, such as e.g. high-definition movie players for removable storage media such as optical discs, may provide possibilities for advanced interactivity for the user, implemented as software applications. A question arising generally with such software applications is what the life cycle of such an application is, and who may control it. The invention provides a method for executing software applications within a playback device for audio-video data, wherein data from a first removable storage medium are read for a software application to be executed within said playback device, and the data comprise an indication defining a termination condition for the application. Based on said termination code and depending on how the medium holding the application is ejected, the application is terminated or may survive.
US09137501B2
A system and method includes a host device, an intermediate device and a user device having a device type associated therewith. A network is in communication with the host device, the intermediate device and the user device. The host device communicates a first graphics command to the intermediate device. The intermediate device converts the first graphics command to a second graphics command in response to the device type. The user device generates a screen display in response to the second graphics command.
US09137500B1
A method of operating a video system to detect fraudulent return transactions comprises receiving an indication of a return transaction from a point of sale system, wherein the indication of the return transaction indicates a time when the return transaction occurred. The method further comprises receiving video data of an area proximate to the point of sale system captured at the time when the return transaction occurred. The method further comprises processing the video data to determine whether a first person is located in a return area and whether a second person is located proximate to the point of sale system. The method further comprises determining whether the return transaction is legitimate or fraudulent based on whether the first person is located in the return area and whether the second person is located proximate to the point of sale system.
US09137493B2
There are times when a first user may wish to distribute an excerpt of a protected digital content to a second user, for example for criticism. The protected digital content is divided into a plurality of parts, each part being encrypted using a control word specific for the part, wherein each control word can be generated from a master control word for the protected digital content. A device belonging to the first user selects the parts of the excerpt; generates the control words for the selected parts from the master control word; generates a license for the selected parts, the license comprising the control words for the selected parts; and transmits the selected parts and the license to the receiver of the second user. Also provided is the device of the first user.
US09137491B2
Methods and systems for forced advertising are provided. These methods and systems determine when a forced advertisement is to be presented, determine what forced advertisement is to be presented, and control how the forced advertisement is to be presented. A forced advertisement may be received prior to the time at which the forced advertisement is to be presented or when needed. The forced advertisement may be presented when certain broadcast advertisements are being broadcast, at certain times of the day, or at certain times within a program. The forced advertisements may be selected based upon content of a replaced broadcast advertisement, content of a nearby program, or independently of any broadcast-related factors. Finally, forced advertisements may be presented so that a television viewer cannot escape viewing the advertisement by changing channels or turning off the television.
US09137485B2
A home multimedia network comprises a plurality of source nodes, wherein each of the source nodes includes an apparatus for concurrently transmitting and receiving high-speed data services; a plurality of sink nodes, wherein each of the sink nodes includes the apparatus for concurrently transmitting and receiving high-speed data services; a switch for connecting a first group of the plurality of source nodes located at one room to one or more sink nodes located at a different room than the first group of source nodes, the first group of source nodes and the one or more sink nodes are connected to the switch through a twisted-pair cable, the high-speed data services are concurrently transported over the twisted-pair cable, wherein the high-speed data services include at least uncompressed multimedia data, Ethernet data, and Universal Serial Bus data.
US09137467B2
An image sensor supporting a normal sampling mode and a 1/N sampling mode for transmitting image data detected by a plurality of unit image sensors and stored in a plurality of latch circuits to a data processor using a plurality of transmission lines, wherein N is a natural number greater than 2, the image sensor including a horizontal address generator configured to generate horizontal addresses corresponding to addresses of the plurality of latch circuits, and to generate, based on the horizontal addresses, a first channel selection control signal and a second channel selection control signal of which activation times at least partially overlap.
US09137466B2
Embodiments described herein may operate to compare an illuminance corresponding to a signal from an image sensor array (ISA) element in a production imaging system with an illuminance associated with optical flare incident to an ISA from which the ISA element is selected. The ISA element may be identified as unusable if the illuminance corresponding to the signal from the ISA element is less than the illuminance associated with the optical flare incident to the ISA.
US09137461B2
Apparatuses and methods related to custom view finders are disclosed. In one embodiment, for example, a method is disclosed which includes defining a view finder region within a first image and saving the image with the view finder into a non-transitory computer readable medium. Additionally, the method includes capturing a second image with a digital camera and compositing the second image into the view finder region of the first image to generate a composite image.
US09137449B2
There are provided a retaining unit that retains a basic model indicating a plurality of relations for a plurality of subject conditions between a plurality of illuminances and a plurality of luminance of a plurality of captured images, which are obtained when a subject is imaged by changing an illuminance condition under the subject conditions; a reference image acquiring unit that acquires a captured image captured in a target space for illuminance estimation as a reference image; a reference illuminance acquiring unit that acquires illuminance of the target space at a time of imaging the reference image as reference illuminance; and an illuminance estimation model generating unit that generates an illuminance estimation model indicating a relation between illuminance and luminance in the target space from a data value indicated as a pair of the reference illuminance and luminance of the reference image based on the basic model.
US09137447B2
An imaging apparatus capable of wirelessly communicating with a display device, including: an imaging unit configured to capture a subject image to generate a captured image; a peaking processor configured to adjust emphasis of in-focus part in the captured image according to an image quality setting of image displayed on the display device of a peaking image to be sent to the display device, to generate a peaking image including emphasized in-focus part of the captured image, when a mode for performing a peaking process on the captured image is set; and a sending unit configured to send the peaking image to the display device by wireless communication.
US09137432B2
A backside illumination image sensor is provided. The backside illumination image sensor includes a plurality of different types of pixels, each pixel including a photodiode configured to accumulate photogenerated charges corresponding to light incident on a backside of a semiconductor substrate and a transfer transistor configured to transfer the photogenerated charges to a floating diffusion node; and a plurality of transfer lines disposed at a front side of the semiconductor substrate, the plurality of transfer lines connected to a gate of the transfer transistor of a respective one of the pixels, wherein transfer control signals respectively transmitted through the transfer lines produce different effective integration times in the pixels.
US09137422B2
Embodiments provide a method comprising receiving a halftone image, the halftone image comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel of the plurality of pixels including pixel data associated with a plurality of color planes; forming a pixel group, the pixel group including (i) a target pixel and (ii) one or more pixels that are neighboring to the target pixel; generating a pixel window for the pixel group; comparing the pixel window with a plurality of candidate patterns; determining that the pixel window matches with at least one of the plurality of candidate patterns; and based on determining that the pixel window matches with at least one of the plurality of candidate patterns, performing an image processing operation on the pixel group.
US09137419B2
When a communication partner of wireless communication is identified, a user is prompted to ascertain whether to execute wireless communication with the identified communication partner. When the user has given an instruction to execute wireless communication, connection processing of wireless communication with a communication apparatus identified as the communication partner is executed. Furthermore, if the identified communication partner is a permitted device, connection processing of wireless communication can be executed without requiring the user to confirm.
US09137415B2
Among other things, at a cloud-based service, digital image files are received from which digital images can be displayed on devices. For each of the digital image files, data is embedded in the digital image file on behalf of a party who has rights in the digital image file. The existence of the embedded data is not perceptible in any digital image that is displayed using the digital image file. The embedded data includes information from which the digital image file can be authenticated. At the cloud-based service, a digital image file is received that is to be authenticated. The digital image file is authenticated based on the embedded data.
US09137414B2
Disclosed is a document imaging apparatus that includes a housing, which contains a paper storage tray, a digital image sensing device for capturing an image, an adjustable digital image sensing device stand supported by the housing and supporting the digital image sensing device, and a motorized document removal assembly comprising at least one roller wheel picker and a plurality of rollers, wherein the at least one roller wheel picker can be raised and lowered and is configured to apply a frictional force to a top surface of a single sheet of paper and to transfer the single sheet of paper toward the rollers. Optionally, a fax, copier, and printer and be integrated into the document imaging apparatus.
US09137413B2
An image reading device includes first carriage, a stepper motor, a shakiness level calculating section, and a timing adjusting section. The first carriage reads an image of a document to be read loaded on a document table. The stepper motor moves the first carriage relative to the document. The shakiness level calculating section calculates a shakiness level of the image, indicating shakiness of the image during reading by the first carriage, based on image data read by the first carriage with respect to a reference image incorporated into the document table. The timing adjusting section adjusts a rise timing of a step signal input to the stepper motor in accordance with the shakiness level that is calculated.
US09137398B2
A multi-core processor is used in a portable device that has first and second image sensors spaced from each other for capturing images of a scene from slightly different perspectives. The multi-core processor has a first image sensor interface for receiving data from the image sensor, a second image sensor interface for receiving data from the second image sensor, multiple processing units and, the four processing units and the first and second sensor interfaces being integrated onto a single chip. The processing units are configured to simultaneously process the data from the first and second image interfaces to generate stereoscopic image data.
US09137392B2
A multifunction peripheral includes: a facsimile communication section, an image memory, a job management section, a transfer instruction reception section, a password creation section, a data transfer control section, and a delete instruction reception section. When the delete instruction reception section has received a delete instruction, the job management section compares a password indicated by the delete instruction with a password created in correspondence with facsimile data of a fax job targeted for deletion by the delete instruction, and deletes the fax job indicated by the delete instruction under condition that the passwords agree with each other.
US09137381B2
Systems and methods described herein may allow for the sharing of routing information among call control devices. The routing information may be stored in an information repository, where call control devices may access the routing information as needed. The information repository may be centrally located for centralized access by call control devices, or may be distributed to individual call control devices for localized access.
US09137377B2
Systems and methods for partially releasing an appliance from a private branch exchange are shown and described. The method can include issuing a path replacement command to the private branch exchange, receiving a facility message from the private branch exchange destined for one end-point of a communications session, and transmitting the received facility message to another end-point of the communications session.
US09137366B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium for maintaining a work schedule that comprises accepting a forecasted manpower requirement for zero or more agents, setting a recurring schedule for zero or more agents, summing the number of agents currently scheduled for an interval of time, determining a manpower availability based upon the summed current schedules, calculating a manpower delta between the forecasted manpower requirement and the determined manpower availability, offering an uptime adjustment to an agent not currently scheduled if the calculated manpower delta shows additional manpower is required, and offering a downtime adjustment to an agent currently scheduled if the calculated manpower delta shows less manpower is required.
US09137362B2
A method for enabling a calling user to establish a communication session with a called user, the calling user being associated with at least one calling user device and the called user being associated with at least one called user device, wherein the communication session can be established through a plurality of possible communication services and provisioning of said plurality of possible communication services is enabled through a corresponding plurality of communication service actuators, includes: a) receiving from the at least one calling user device, a request to establish a communication session with the called user, b) determining if, among said plurality of possible communication services, there is at least one communication service currently available to establish a communication session with the called user at the at least one called user device, based on current context information on the called user, c) in the affirmative case of b), selecting one of the at least one currently available communication service based on predetermined policies, and d) sending to the communication service actuator that enables the provision of the communication service selected in c) suitable information for starting establishment of the communication session between the calling user and the called user through the selected communication service.
US09137361B2
A method and apparatus for enabling a network service provider, e.g., a VoIP network provider, to create configuration files containing network based parameters that support global telephony capabilities (e.g., in country services) such as in country ring tones, dialing patterns, network announcements, and signaling tones that can be offered to users who want in country telephony capabilities independent of their location is disclosed. These global telephony capability configurations can be downloaded to intelligent IP phones or based in the VoIP network for access by subscribers' telephony devices.
US09137353B2
Provided are an electronic device wherein operability is improved by changing display contents as needed corresponding to a touch state with a display area, and a display method employed in the electronic deviceThe electronic device is provided with: a display section (21) which indicates selection items; a detecting section (31) which detects a touch with a display area of the display section (21); and a control section (32) which controls to switch the display state of the display section (21) corresponding to the touch state with the display area to a first display state wherein a first display item group having a plurality of first hierarchical items relating to the selected item or to a second display state wherein a second display item group which has a plurality of second hierarchical items relating to the selected item and the number of items larger than that of the first display item group, at the time when a touch with the display area that corresponds to the selected item is detected by the detecting section (31) in the state where the selection items are displayed on the display section (21).
US09137344B2
An information displaying method, a mobile phone, and a storage device are provided. The information displaying method comprises the following steps. Whether a communication process is started is determined. If the communication process is started, then telephone number information is received. Event information is obtained according to the telephone number information. The event information is displayed.
US09137342B2
Systems and methods for populating a contacts directory are disclosed. A method of populating a contacts directory associated with a telephonic device includes placing a call from a first telephonic device to a second telephonic device. Called party contact information associated with the second telephonic device can be received and stored automatically in the contacts directory as a contact.
US09137338B2
In various embodiments, a remote client is allowed to access at least a part of a connection service located on alternate sources other than the primary remote presentation server. In some embodiments, the remote presentation virtual channels may be split into multiple connections with the purpose of allowing better flow control. Some embodiments may be implemented in a virtual machine environment for cases in which the data to be transferred through a data channel is located in the host virtual machine partition but the remote endpoint is located on the guest virtual machine partition.
US09137337B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for communicating with a sender machine and a receiver machine, and analyzing a bitmask associated with a message to be sent from the sender machine to the receiver machine, such that the bitmask comprises one or more presence bits and one or more absence bits, such that the presence bits indicate that an associated field of the message are included in the message and the absence bits indicate that an associated field of the message are omitted in the message. The systems and methods also dynamically determine compression instructions to compress the bitmask, and provide the compression instructions to the sender machine, wherein the compression instructions reduce size of the bitmask associated with the message to be sent to the receiver machine.
US09137333B1
A computing system invokes a proxy agent in a virtual environment hosted by the computing system to obtain configuration change data for a virtualized application from an agent residing in a physical environment hosted by the computing system. The proxy agent changes a configuration of the virtualized application based on the configuration change data to cause the virtualized application to load a plug-in in the virtual environment. The computing system launches the virtualized application and the virtualized application loads the plug-in in the virtual environment to utilize a function of the plug-in in the virtual environment.
US09137331B2
This disclosure is related to systems, devices, and methods of adaptive replication. Adaptive replication can allow a node in a network to optimally determine where, when, and how to retrieve data from other nodes in the network. For example, adaptive replication may include receiving a notification corresponding to data at a first node in the network and selecting a node of multiple nodes in the network to retrieve the data from. The first node may retrieve the data from any node within the network that has the data. In some embodiments, a node may add delays or select where to retrieve data from based on a priority, a bandwidth, or other factors.
US09137328B2
The disclosure recites a device, system and method for provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device. The method comprises: after the electronic device has been approved for an initial registration with the communications network, receiving a data transmission at the electronic device from the communication network, the data transmission containing access information relating to a resource in a library that is the communication network; extracting the access information from the data transmission at the electronic device; sending a request from the electronic device to the communication network for a second data transmission containing a copy of the resource to the electronic device; downloading the resource from the communication network; and integrating the resource into an application as an output generated by the application.
US09137324B2
Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by using dynamic capacity-on-demand techniques for re-routing traffic in a distributed computing network. When demand on an enterprise's resources exceeds some predetermined level, dynamic modifications cause static content (such as images) to be served from resources which are external to the enterprise, such as a caching system which is located close to the enterprise's end users. When demand falls below the predetermined level, the modifications are effectively reversed, such that the external resources are no longer used. The predetermined level may apply to a single monitored device, or to a group of monitored devices. The dynamic capacity-on-demand techniques may also be used for dynamic types of content, such as for dynamically re-routing access to an application program executing on an external resource, and may be used for internal capacity-on-demand as well.
US09137322B2
The system according to an embodiment of the present invention may more appropriately provide recommendation information of contents based on use status of the contents by a plurality of users. The system includes a service provision control unit for controlling provision of services, an information storage unit for storing information, a recommended content selection unit for selecting recommended games based on closeness information between the users and use degree information by the users for each game, a recommended content information sending unit for sending content recommendation information including information specifying recommended games, a recommended user selection unit for selecting recommended users based on the use degree information, a recommended user information sending unit for user recommendation information including information specifying the recommended users, and a relationship request information sending unit for sending relationship request information in response to a request for setting a friend with the recommended users.
US09137321B2
Systems and methods that integrate social media applications having social media communities of like-minded users with other applications, such as enterprise applications, are described herein. A user may join one or more of the social media communities based on a variety of factors, including applications the user uses or plans to use, user type (e.g., end-user, administrator, etc.), the user's level of expertise, and/or the type of activities that the user plans to perform in one or more applications. A user's actions within or using one or more applications may be monitored. In response to detecting performance of a monitored action, a description of the user's action may be published to other users in the social media community, the user may be paired with one or more social media communities, and/or recommendations for resources related to the detected action may be provided to the user. Recommendations may also be provided based on posts made by the user in the social media community.
US09137307B2
The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., computer readable medium) presented for: reading all multi-application files stored in network devices (i.e., in servers, workstations, archives, backup repositories, etc.) comprised in a computer network or reading selected multi-application files comprising one or more predefined features and stored in said network devices using a generic application programming interface (GAPI), followed by creating and/or updating (e.g., periodically) meta-data for the files read by using the GAPI, and/or followed by retrieving requested files out of the multi-application files using the meta-data for the requested files (if the meta-data is created and properly updated).
US09137305B2
An information processing device includes a processor to execute a process including: blocking, owing to remote control through a network, at least one of communication of a request transmitted by a first device and addressed to a second device, the communication being performed from a network device, disposed on a communication path between the first device and the second device, to the second device, and communication of a response transmitted by the second device and addressed to the first device; acquiring, from the network device, the request transmitted by the first device and addressed to the second device; and transmitting to the first device, an instruction for switching a transmission destination of the request to a third device.
US09137298B2
A tag sharing method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor, an audio/video data file and tag data describing different subject matter of audio/video data of the audio/video data file. The computer processor associates portions of the tag data with audio/video subsets of the audio/video data and in response the computer processor generates a modified audio/video data file including independent audio/video tags. Each audio/video tag of the independent audio/video tags includes an audio/video subset of the audio/video subsets independently stored with an associated portion of the portions of the tag data. The computer processor receives rule data comprising rules associated with allowing users of a social networking system to view each audio/video subset. The computer processor stores the modified audio/video data file and the rule data.
US09137296B2
The invention relates to a method for providing hypertext data through a hypertext server on a portable data carrier for a terminal connected to the portable data carrier, and to an accordingly adapted portable data carrier. The hypertext server receives a hypertext query of the terminal and thereupon provides hypertext data relating to the hypertext query. The hypertext server then sends the provided hypertext data as a hypertext response to the terminal. The method is characterized in that upon the providing of the hypertext data at least one hyperlink contained in the hypertext data is checked and the checked hyperlink is contained in the hypertext response.
US09137295B2
When the intensity and/or emotion of audience members of a presentation is high or low, the audience members typically use social media to post indications of their excitement or disappointment. However, the raw, natural, emotional energy is dissipated during or shortly after the post without ever being efficiently monetized. This constitutes a lost opportunity for the event and/or venue owner or event presenter. However, components can determine characteristics associated with an audience's interactions during an event. The characteristics can be leveraged to harness the natural emotion and interactivity associated with the audiences for use in engaging the audience in commerce and/or improving the audience's overall experience.
US09137288B2
Disclosed is a fully push-based and scalable web application architecture unifying discrete and persistent web services. It houses a database slave on the web server machine to leverage the replication capabilities of common database systems. In doing so, the replication of data between a database master (located on a separate machine) and a slave (located on the web server machine) serves to prompt the web server software of any changes in the data, with which it may then generate an updated web service response to push to the relevant clients. Neither the clients nor the web servers ever need to blindly poll a data source for changes. Furthermore, data is transmitted in the same RESTful style using a persistent (i.e. WebSocket) connection as it would be using the corresponding discrete HTTP request.
US09137287B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for providing high availability voice applications. More specifically, one or more applications may share an extension of a switch among each other. This allows each application to receive data from the switch without occupying additional extensions of the switch. A first application sharing the extension with a second application may be provided as a backup to the second application in case the second application fails. Thus, the second application does not represent a single point of failure for the overall system.
US09137282B2
Mobile wireless devices may receive data streams from multiple remote sensors. The sensors may have limited power supplies and memory capacity. Aspects of the invention use statistical characteristics of the sensor data streams and the cost of acquiring a single element of each stream to determine what sequence the sensors should send their data streams in. The cost of acquiring the data may be modified dynamically, depending on parameters such as block size. Additional factors, such as a sensor's buffer capacity, may limit the amount of stream elements that may be cached and affect the sensors' stream transmit sequence. The evaluation order may be dynamically modified using an event processing engine, to reflect both changing statistics of underlying sensor stream tuples and time-varying acquisition costs associated with individual streams. This helps to increase in the operational lifetime of the sensors and associated monitoring applications.
US09137274B2
A network communication method is provided, said network comprising first and second nodes. The method comprises: transmitting a message from the first node to the second node, wherein the message comprises a data content portion and an identifying portion, wherein said identifying portion includes a first unique identifier corresponding to a time source which controls a time value at the first node; receiving the transmitted message at the second node; comparing the first unique identifier to a second unique identifier, wherein said second unique identifier corresponds to a time source which controls a time value at the second node; and if the result of said comparison is positive, accepting the message for processing at the second node.
US09137269B2
Methods and apparatus for handling a communication session for an unregistered Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) device are disclosed. An example method includes, in response to receiving an internet protocol multimedia subsystem session initiation message from a user endpoint, determining whether the user endpoint is registered; and, when the user endpoint is determined to be unregistered: determining whether the internet protocol multimedia subsystem session initiation message is directed to an exception endpoint by performing a lookup on a list; determining whether a profile for the unregistered user endpoint is available; when the profile for the user endpoint determined to be unregistered is unavailable, loading a default profile; and establishing an internet protocol multimedia subsystem session on behalf of the user endpoint determined to be unregistered when the internet protocol multimedia subsystem session initiation message is directed to the exception endpoint.
US09137262B2
A system is disclosed that includes components and features for enabling enterprise users to securely access enterprise resources (documents, data, application servers, etc.) using their mobile devices. An enterprise can use some or all components of the system to, for example, securely but flexibly implement a BYOD (bring your own device) policy in which users can run both personal applications and secure enterprise applications on their mobile devices. The system may, for example, implement policies for controlling mobile device accesses to enterprise resources based on device attributes (e.g., what mobile applications are installed), user attributes (e.g., the user's position or department), behavioral attributes, and other criteria. Client-side code installed on the mobile devices may further enhance security by, for example, creating a secure container for locally storing enterprise data, creating a secure execution environment for running enterprise applications, and/or creating secure application tunnels for communicating with the enterprise system.
US09137259B2
A switch route exploring method, system and device are provided in the present invention. The method comprises that: a transmitting source node NSource constructs a switch route exploring request packet and transmits it to a destination node NDestination; the switch route exploring request packet comprises information of switch route from the transmitting source node NSource to the destination node NDestination, wherein the information is known by the transmitting source node NSource; and the destination node NDestination constructs a switch route exploring response packet and transmits it to the transmitting source node NSource.
US09137258B2
This disclosure provides an architecture for sharing information between network security administrators. Events converted to a normalized data format (CCF) are stored in a manner that can be queried by a third party (e.g., an administrator of another, trusted network). Optionally made available as a service, stored event records can be sanitized for third party queries (e.g., by clients of a service maintaining such a repository). In one embodiment, each contributing network encrypts or signs its (sanitized) records using a symmetric key architecture, the key being unique to the contributing network. This key is used (e.g., by the repository) to index a set of permissions or conditions of the contributing network in servicing any query, e.g., by matching a stored hash of the event record or by decrypting the record. The information sharing service can optionally be provided by a hosted information security service or on a peer-to-peer basis.
US09137257B2
A method operates to detect personal identifying or account information exchanged in a real-time electronic communication occurring between computer network users, such as electronic chat. A detected personal identifier may be recognized as an attempt on the part of one user to engage in a phishing attack upon another user or to otherwise steal the other user's sensitive personal information. Upon recognizing the communication as an unwarranted attempt to collect such information, the electronic communication may be monitored, and communication of the personal information may be prevented.
US09137255B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for verifying server identity. In some aspects a grant to access resources associated with a server is received from the server via a wireless network through which an address of the server is undeterminable. The grant includes the address of the server, and the server is verified as a granting authority for the resources based on the address of the server and known address information for the granting authority of the services.
US09137250B2
A method and system for electronic content storage and retrieval using Galois Fields and information entropy on cloud computing networks. Electronic content is divided into plural portions and stored in plural cloud storage objects based on determined information entropy of the electronic content thereby reducing location guessing of the electronic content using information gain and mutual information. Storage locations for the plural cloud storage objects are selected using a Galois field. The plural cloud storage objects are distributed across the cloud network. The Galois filed and information entropy providing various levels of security and privacy for the electronic content.
US09137248B2
A method for discovering emulated clients. A verifier sends a cryptographic challenge C to a client and preferably starts a timer. The client uses a deterministic key search algorithm to find the correct key and returns the result as a number of tries needed. The verifier then stops the timer if this was started and verifies that the result is correct and preferably that the response was timely. Also provided is a verifier.
US09137246B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for user authentication using a plurality of authentication variables, such as biometrics and contextual data. Example contextual data includes the geographical location of the user, a gesture of the user, and the machine identification of the individual's user device.
US09137231B2
When setting up communication from a user equipment UE (1), such as for providing IP access for the UE in order to allow it to use some service, information or an indication of at least one network property relating to a first network, e.g. the current access network (3, 3′), is sent to the UE from a node (13) in a second network such as the home network (5) of the subscriber of the UE. The information or indication can be sent in a first stage of an authentication procedure being part of the setting up of a connection from the UE. In particular, the network property can indicate whether the access network (3, 3′) is trusted or not.
US09137228B1
An SP's default user authentication is automatically augmented. An access request from a user is redirected from the SP to an authentication augmentation system. The SP also sends an augmentation request. The augmentation system redirects the access request to an IdP, and receives back an authenticated user identity. The default authentication is automatically augmented with additional techniques such as identity proofing and/or multifactor authentication, without the SP or the IdP modifying their code to implement or integrate the augmented authentication. Responsive to successfully authenticating the user according to the additional techniques, an augmented authenticated user identity is redirected to the SP. The augmentation system can use an identity management protocol such as SAML to communicate with the SP and IdP. Authentication performed by a third party and extended to the SP can be augmented, in which case a session id can be used to access third party services.
US09137224B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing access to remote computing services are described. The method includes authenticating a user and a client device; establishing a connection to a server computer including: a server program executing on the server computer detecting the connection; the server program creating a blocking process on the server computer to block access of the user to a service on the connection, authorizing, using a client program executing on the client device and the server program, the user to use the service on the server computer including: terminating the blocking process, the user using the service; and the user closing the connection to the server computer. Embodiments of the present invention provide secure remote access to computing services.
US09137214B2
Encrypted content streaming is provided by a method comprising holding an encrypted content stream that is cryptographically encrypted from a content stream with a content key, and holding an encrypted content key that is cryptographically encrypted from the content key with one or more blackout encryption keys. Each blackout encryption key is paired to a blackout decryption key corresponding to a specific audience, and each blackout decryption key is obtainable by audiences other than the specific audience corresponding to the blackout decryption key. The method further comprises serving the encrypted content stream to the plurality of different audiences. The encrypted content stream is embedded with a leaf license comprising the encrypted content key, and the encrypted content key is cryptographically decryptable by audiences having the one or more blackout decryption keys paired to the one or more blackout encryption keys.
US09137213B2
A feature activation system provides a mixed computing environment that includes a server and cloud computing. The hybrid model splits the execution of a communication feature between the cloud and the enterprise server installed at or with the enterprise. Service activation is linked to a portal that can communicate with either an intermediary system or directly with an entity executing computer programs in the cloud. When the customer desires to use a feature, the customer accesses the portal and activates the feature the enterprise desires. In the background, the portal instantiates a virtual machine, on any cloud platform, and then installs the feature with virtual machine on that cloud server. To execute feature, the enterprise server and the virtual machine exchange information between the server and the cloud and allow the feature to access the enterprise server or enterprise data. When the user has completed feature execution, the instance of the feature may be stopped and discarded and any data may be saved either at the enterprise or within the cloud.
US09137211B2
In an example embodiment, a method of dynamically tunneling specific, or per application, services on demand without having to build complex split tunneling policies on Virtual Private Network (VPN) terminators. In particular embodiments, the method can allow for tunneling to multiple data centers on devices with limited, e.g., single, concentrator capabilities.
US09137205B2
Methods and systems for protecting a secured network are presented. For example, one or more packet security gateways may be associated with a security policy management server. At each packet security gateway, a dynamic security policy may be received from the security policy management server, packets associated with a network protected by the packet security gateway may be received, and at least one of multiple packet transformation functions specified by the dynamic security policy may be performed on the packets. Performing the at least one of multiple packet transformation functions specified by the dynamic security policy on the packets may include performing at least one packet transformation function other than forwarding or dropping the packets.
US09137199B2
Various embodiments pertain to techniques for translation of network addresses including encapsulating state information into the data packet being transferred. A NAT device receives a data packet destined for an IPv4 server from an IPv6 client device and translates the destination address. The NAT device encapsulates the translation information into the data packet, and transmits the data packet to the IPv4 server. Upon receiving a response from the IPv4 server, the NAT device translates the source address on the data packet to reflect the original destination address for the packet received from the IPv6 client, such that the client device may be unaware that it was communicating with an IPv4 server. In various embodiments, the translation information is embedded in the IP options as part of the TCP header of the data packet.
US09137185B2
The size of attachments to an electronic message are examined before the message is sent to determine if the attachments exceed a size threshold. When the size of the attachments exceed the threshold, one or more of the attachments are uploaded to a shared location that is accessible to the recipients of the message. A link replaces each attachment that was uploaded to the shared location. Permissions are automatically set at the shared location such that each of the recipients of the message are able to access the uploaded attachment.
US09137182B2
In a method for notifying a participant of an online conference of when a portion of content will be presented during the online conference, a computer receives at least one data item identifying the portion of content. The computer determines an estimate of a time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. The computer transmits a user notification including the estimate of the time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate.
US09137169B2
Using information for efficient allocation of network resources, such as for a communication session, is disclosed. The methods and systems can utilize one or more identifiers that can be configured to indicate the presence of one or more supported features, along with an indication of whether the supported feature is required for communication.
US09137165B2
A first data packet of a data flow may be addressed to a primary address and include information for the data flow and a bucket ID may be computed based on the information. Responsive to the bucket ID mapping to first and second servers and the first data packet being addressed to the primary address, the first data packet may be transmitted to the first server. A second data packet may be received addressed to a stand-by address and including the information for the data flow, and a bucket ID may be computed based on the information with the bucket IDs for the first and second packets being the same. Responsive to the bucket ID for the second data packet mapping to first and second servers and the second data packet being addressed to the stand-by address, the second data packet may be transmitted to the second server.
US09137164B2
A method and computing device for assessing the integrity of receivers in a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) to improve load balancing. The method configures a load balancing manager to move registered modems between the receivers, where each receiver is tuned to a frequency. The method obtains a signal quality measurement for each receiver, and, for each receiver, evaluates the signal quality measurement, and identifies the receiver as an impaired receiver when the frequency to which the receiver is tuned is identified by the evaluating as an impaired frequency. The method attempts to repair each impaired receiver, and notifies the load balancing manager to not allow moving the registered modems to each impaired receiver that is not repairable, and to allow moving the registered modems to each receiver that transitions from impaired to unimpaired.
US09137160B2
Methods and apparatuses for preventing overflow at a receiver buffer are provided. Data packets of varying size are received into a receiver buffer and quantified by a byte counter to determine an amount of data in the receiver buffer at a given time. A data capacity status for the receiver buffer is then generated as a function of the amount of data in the receiver buffer.
US09137152B2
A method for routing content, comprising receiving an interest packet from a first face, wherein the interest packet comprises a content name field populated with a first content name, a destination field, and a broadcast flag field set to broadcast, wherein the broadcast field indicates whether the first face has previously received a request having the first content name, and receiving a data packet from a second face, wherein the data packet comprises a content name field populated with a second content name, a source field populated with the identity of a source of data associated with the second content name, and a data field populated with the data associated with the second content name.
US09137148B2
A control unit included in an information processing system determines, on the basis of information indicative of interface units and path information indicative of communication paths through a plurality of relay apparatus, whether or not the number of communication paths for access from the interface units to a node is greater than the number of the interface units. When the number of the communication paths is greater than the number of the interface units, the control unit controls the plurality of relay apparatus so as to block a part of the communication paths.
US09137147B2
A ring network protection method is provided. A first node sends a protection switching request on a link protection tunnel of a link between the first node and a second node and on a node protection tunnel of the second node when a fault occurs in a ring network. A protection switching response is received on the link protection tunnel of the link between the first node and the second node, or the node protection tunnel of the second node. Services are switched to the protection tunnel where the protection switching request is received.
US09137144B2
A manner of selecting communication traffic paths through a LAN, WAN, or similar communication network. Traffic received at a source bridge is forwarded to a destination bridge along a communication path selected from a plurality of possible, preferably EHEC paths. The paths may be discovered by a breadth first search and stored in a path selection table in association with a sequential index number. The paths are selected, for example by assigning a path to a VLAN by determining V mod N, comparing the result to indices on a path selection table that associates an unique index with each of the plurality of communication paths, and selecting the path associated with an index equal to the result, wherein N is the number of paths in the plurality of paths and V is a group identifier. The selected paths may be stored in the path selection table in association with the respective VLAN, and any received traffic for that VLAN is forwarded along the selected path.
US09137140B2
A software defined network controller detects when a host has moved between network elements in a network. The controller generates a list of network elements to which the host has roamed, the list being sorted by time when the host is attached to a network element so that a most recent network element to which the host is attached is the root network element and at a head of the list. The controller updates the root network element in the list first for traffic flow associated with the host. The controller sends commands to the network elements to program a tunnel from each previous point of attachment network element in the list to the most recent root network element in the list in reverse order of the roaming path so as to route traffic for the host via a tunnel.
US09137138B2
A method for a first network to receive a packet from a second network is provided, including a router at the first network receiving the packet from the second network, the packet addressed to a client reachable through the first network; the router inspecting the packet for a nonrepudiable marking provided by the second network; if the nonrepudiable marking is present and matches the packet, adding an indicator pointing to the second network in the packet; adding a second nonrepudiable marking to the packet, and transmitting the packet to a destination; and otherwise, dropping the packet.
US09137137B2
A method for loop detection and a network device applying such method are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a port, a loop detection frame; detecting, by a loop detection unit, whether the loop detection frame is transmitted via a port of the network device; analyzing, by a frame analyzer unit, the loop detection frame when the loop detection frame is transmitted via the port, and determining whether there is any loop in the network device; and shutting down the port of the network device or not perform any action, by a port switching unit when the frame analyzer unit determines that there is a loop in the network device, wherein the loop detection frame is a loop detection protocol data unit (LDPDU) frame.
US09137125B1
Systems and methods for pre-fetching video content from a content server for eventual playback on a mobile device are disclosed herein. The system includes a component that creates a request for a video stored on a video content server, wherein the request can include a rule that can control and govern broadcast conditions implemented by the video content server in order to return the requested video to the requester. Additionally, the system can include a transmitting component that relays the request for the video to the content service for subsequent fulfillment of the request.
US09137118B2
To identify a logical topology of each virtual network among logical topologies of a plurality of virtual networks configured in physical devices.A management server includes a controller for managing logical topology information of all virtual networks each of which includes a plurality of virtual resources configured in a plurality of physical devices coupled to a network; wherein the controller: searches the logical topology of all the virtual networks from the entire virtual network based on the information of branch point resource which is a kind of virtual resource for mutually coupling the plurality of virtual networks and constitutes a branch point for each virtual network; extracts a series of virtual resources that terminates at the branch point resource; and identifies the series of extracted virtual resources as a partial topology, which eventually represents the topology of a virtual network inside the entire virtual network.
US09137117B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes determining a location of a location detection device using a wireless link; determining an identity of a fixed port to which the location detection device is connected, where the location of the location detection device is proximate to the fixed port; and communicating a location of the fixed port to a location anchor. In more specific examples, the location of the fixed port is linked to a point of attachment in order to configure the fixed port. Additionally, the location of the fixed port can be presented to a server for application to a point of attachment via an application program interface (API).
US09137114B2
A home network can be dynamically reconfigured when IP connected or wireless devices are requesting network access makes it easier for consumers to keep their current viewing, listening, or Internet sessions alive and functioning properly. Home network use can be managed by any device on the home network if desired, not just a central home router, through series of messages that are exchanged by each device updating its priority status.
US09137103B2
An exemplary method for configuring a device to enable it to become a member of an established network comprises reading, using a portable device, a first token of a networked device, obtaining configuration data based on the first token, reading a second token of a non-networked device, establishing a communication session with the non-networked device based on the second token, and providing the configuration data to the non-networked device to enable it to become a member of the same network as the networked device.
US09137098B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of constructing network communication for a grid of node groups is provided, the grid including an M dimensional grid, each node group including N nodes, wherein M is greater than or equal to one and N is greater than one, wherein each node includes a router. The method includes directly connecting each node in each node group to every other node in the node group via intra-group links and directly connecting each node in each node group of the M dimensional grid to a node in each neighboring node group in the M dimensional grid via inter-group links.
US09137093B1
Requests for data received from multiple subscribers are accessed. At least some of the requests for data originate from one or more addresses associated with a particular subscriber of the multiple subscribers. The accessed requests for data are organized into sets of requests based on the one or more addresses such that a set of requests corresponds to the particular subscriber, and a characteristic of the particular subscriber is determined based on aspects of the set of requests corresponding to the particular subscriber and a behavior model.
US09137092B2
A network management system utilizes an element manager at the RNC level to reduce the workload and efficiently manage multiple wireless appliances in a mobile data network. Management communications from the network management system flow through the element manager to all devices under the RNC level appliance hosting the element manager. The element manager provides for fault management, performance monitoring and configuration of the many breakout appliances and reports necessary information back to the network management system.
US09137090B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of communicating upper-layer protocol information. For example, a wireless communication unit to transmit a management frame, e.g., a Traffic Stream Establishment (TSE) frame, including an Upper-Layer-Identification (UPID) element including a control field indicating a protocol of a layer higher than a Media-Access-Control (MAC) layer.
US09137087B2
Embodiments disclosed herein for MAC processing for efficient use of high throughput systems and that may be backward compatible with various types of legacy systems. In one aspect, a data transmission structure comprises a consolidated poll and one or more frames transmitted in accordance with the consolidated poll. In another aspect, a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) data transmission structure comprises a pilot, a consolidated poll, and zero or more access point to remote station frames in accordance with the consolidated poll. In one aspect, frames are transmitted sequentially with no or substantially reduced interframe spacing. In another aspect, a guard interframe spacing may be introduced between frames transmitted from different sources, or with substantially different power levels. In another aspect, a single preamble is transmitted in association with one or more frames. In another aspect, a block acknowledgement is transmitted subsequent to the transmission of one or more sequential frames.
US09137085B2
A system and method for controlling a performance of a communication link in a data communication system comprises mapping performance of a communication link, as characterized by metrics computed at a first protocol layer in a network device, to quality of the communication link as characterized by metrics computed at a second protocol layer in the network device. The second protocol layer is higher than the first protocol layer in a protocol stack running on the network device. A setting of one or more communication link controls at the first protocol layer is adjusted to attain a given communication link performance at the first protocol layer that, according to the mapping between the communication link performance at the first protocol layer and the quality of the communication link at the second protocol layer, corresponds to a target quality of the communication link at a second protocol layer.
US09137071B2
Improved performance of downlink data transmission in a high speed downlink packet access, HSDPA, mobile communication system is described. Rank information, RI, and channel quality information, CQI, is obtained in a radio base station from a user equipment, UE, and this rank and CQI information is used in a medium access control-ehs, MAC-ehs, entity for determining a transport format and resource combination, TFRC, on a downlink channel.
US09137066B2
The present disclosure is directed at a method and apparatus for generating a metric for use in any one or more of lock detection, SNR estimation, and modulation classification. To generate the metric, an input angle in the form of a symbol phase or a difference in symbol phases is used to evaluate a base function. The base function relates possible metrics to possible input angles using a triangle wave having its maxima or minima at ideal input angles, and the other of its maxima or minima at angles midway the ideal input angles. Described are embodiments that are one or more of non-data aided; that may be implemented relatively efficiently in hardware; that can function using one sample/symbol; that can achieve relatively good detection certainty using relatively few estimates; and that can be used to implement modulation classifiers, lock detectors, and SNR estimators that are resilient to imperfections in automatic gain control.
US09137063B2
A signaling system includes a pre-emphasizing transmitter and an equalizing receiver coupled to one another via a high-speed signal path. The receiver measures the quality of data conveyed from the transmitter. A controller uses this information and other information to adaptively establish appropriate transmit pre-emphasis and receive equalization settings, e.g. to select the lowest power setting for which the signaling system provides some minimum communication bandwidth without exceeding a desired bit-error rate.
US09137056B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to dynamically determine an optimal number of equalizer taps to be used at an upstream receiver based upon existing conditions on an upstream channel. Pre-equalizer coefficients associated with an upstream channel can be used to determine an optimal number of equalizer taps to be used at an upstream receiver. The number of equalizer taps can be dynamically determined for an individual customer premise equipment device or for a plurality of customer premise equipment devices using the same upstream channel.
US09137045B2
An Ethernet multicast method and device are provided, which relate to the communications technology field, and improve the capability of distributing multicast data in the Ethernet. The method includes: receiving a request from a host/multicast source, wherein the request carries a multicast Media Access Control (MAC) address of a destination multicast group; selecting, according to the request, a switch satisfying a particular optimization condition as a multicast root node corresponding to the multicast MAC address of the destination multicast group when it is determined that the multicast MAC address of the destination multicast group does not have the corresponding multicast root node; transmitting an identification of the multicast root node to the host/multicast source. The embodiments of the present invention are mainly applied to the process of the multicast data distribution in the Ethernet.
US09137038B1
The node communication controller (NCC) suitable for use in a line-replaceable unit (LRU) of a modular avionics system may include one or more embedded processors configured to host one or more functions associated with at least one avionics module of an avionics system, an input/output (I/O) controller, and one or more I/O ports, wherein the I/O controller is configured to route data between the one or more embedded processors and the at least one avionics module via the one or more I/O ports and a network communication bus, wherein the I/O controller is further configured to route data between a host processor of the LRU and an additional avionics module via the one or more I/O ports and the network communication bus.
US09137025B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for managing authentication data for an authentication device are disclosed. An authentication device may be included, for example, in a mobile device battery so that the battery can be authenticated by a mobile device. In some implementations, encrypted certificate data are stored on an authentication device. The encrypted certificate data are accessed, and unencrypted certificate data are generated by decrypting the encrypted certificate data. The unencrypted certificate data are stored on the authentication device. The unencrypted certificate data enable the authentication device to provide a valid reply message, for example, in response to receiving an interrogation message from an interrogation device. In some implementations, the reply message includes the unencrypted certificate data and a response value generated by the authentication device based on a secret value.
US09137023B1
A computer-implemented method for signing computer applications is disclosed. The method includes generating a compiled version of a first software application, signing the first software application with a digital certificate locally to a developer of the first software application without assistance from a central certification authority, and submitting the signed first software application to an on-line application store.
US09137020B1
A method for authenticating an object, comprising determining a physical dispersion pattern of a set of elements, determining a physical characteristic of the set of elements which is distinct from a physical characteristic producible by a transfer printing technology, determining a digital code associated with the object defining the physical dispersion pattern, and authenticating the object by verifying a correspondence of the digital code with the physical dispersion pattern, and verifying the physical characteristic.
US09137005B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for the management of link rates for connecting targets devices (e.g., storage devices) to initiators (e.g., host systems). In one embodiment, an expander includes a plurality of PHYs including a PHY having a first link rate and a PHY having a second link rate that is different than the first link rate. The expander also includes a link manager communicatively coupled to the PHYs and operable to process a connection request from an initiator for the first link rate, extract a timer from the connection request, and determine whether the first link rate is available. The link manager is also operable to start the timer when the link manager determines that the first link rate is unavailable and issue a response to the initiator to inform the initiator that the timer has started and that connection at the first link rate is delayed.
US09137002B2
A method and system that allows a mobile station of a communications system to request and be granted a fraction (a sub-set) of the overall frequency bandwidth of a communications channel for its transmissions. Thus, for example, in a TETRA system, a mobile station can, instead of having to request and be granted the full frequency bandwidth of an, e.g., 150 kHz QAM channel, request and be granted only a portion or fraction of the 150 kHz bandwidth of the channel, such as a 25 kHz portion of it. This allows the requested and allocated transmission resources to be more readily optimized to the amount of data that a mobile station wishes to transmit.
US09136999B2
Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e−j(π/2)” so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).
US09136992B2
First resource blocks of a radio resource each include a first number of subcarriers and a second number of subframes having the first size. In this case, second resource blocks are formed, each second resource block including fewer subcarriers than the first number and fewer subframes than the second number based on the first resource blocks. A signal is transmitted in the first resource block or second resource block, and particularly, signals of first and second channels are transmitted by sharing the first resource block.
US09136975B2
A device for transmitting data includes a data receiving unit, a channel quality measurement unit, and a modulating unit. The data receiving unit is configured to receive first transmission data for a first terminal and second transmission data for a second terminal. The channel quality measurement unit is configured to measure a first reception sensitivity of a channel connected to the first terminal and to measure a second reception sensitivity of a channel connected to the second terminal, and a modulating unit configured to determine a modulation scheme based on the first and second reception sensitivities, to encode the first transmission data and the second transmission data according to the determined modulation scheme to obtain modulated data, and to transmit the modulated data to the first and second terminals.
US09136971B2
A method configuring an optical transmission interface of at least one first device transmitting optical signals on a path to a second device on a carrier wavelength substantially equal to a nominal wavelength of an optical band-pass filter present on the path, each first device including an optical reception interface to enable receiving optical signals from the second device, the second device including an optical reception interface to enable receiving optical signals output by the first optical band-pass filter and transmitted by any first device on a carrier wavelength substantially equal to the nominal wavelength, the optical transmission interface of each first device being initially configured for transmitting optical signals on a first carrier wavelength.
US09136967B2
A distributed base station radio system includes first channelized to broadband conversion unit that receives first downlink channelized data for first radio frequency band from first channelized radio frequency source; and first universal remote radio head communicatively coupled to first channelized to broadband conversion unit. First channelized to broadband conversion unit converts first downlink channelized data into a first downlink broadband signal. First channelized to broadband conversion unit communicates the first downlink broadband signal to first universal remote radio head. First universal remote radio head receives first downlink broadband signal. First universal remote radio head frequency converts the first downlink broadband signal into first downlink radio frequency signals in first radio frequency band. First universal remote radio head is further configured to transmit first downlink radio frequency signals in first radio frequency band to first subscriber unit.
US09136965B2
Methods and apparatus for characterizing media are described. An example method includes converting at least a portion of a block of audio into a frequency domain representation, dividing the frequency domain representation into bands, determining a characteristic difference of a first band of the bands, and determining a signature bit based on the characteristic difference, wherein determining the signature bit is performed differently based on whether an index of the first band has a first property.
US09136960B2
A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system and a method for processing data are disclosed. The method for processing data may enhance the receiving performance of the receiving system by performing additional coding and multiplexing processes on the traffic information data and transmitting the processed data. Thus, robustness is provided to the traffic information data, thereby enabling the data to respond strongly against the channel environment which is always under constant and vast change.
US09136949B1
A circuit includes a phase detector circuit and a data detection circuit. The phase detector circuit generates first and second phase detection signals based on a data signal and a periodic signal. The data detection circuit includes logic circuitry that generates a logic signal based on the first and second phase detection signals. The data detection circuit also includes a plurality of delay elements that generate a series of delayed detection signals based on the logic signal. The data detection circuit generates a data detection signal indicating when the data signal contains data based on the series of delayed detection signals.
US09136937B1
A system and method to provide antenna diversity by switching between antenna feeds to optimize signal quality. Antenna conditions are determined during an OFDM guard interval to minimize disruption of symbol transmission. When the signal quality assessment determines that an improved signal is available on an alternative antenna, an antenna change is performed to switch to the alternative antenna, also during a GI, again minimizing disruption in information transmission. Preferably, the process is continually applied, so that antenna conditions are monitored for changing conditions and the antenna experiencing the best signal is selected.
US09136934B2
Systems and methods for packet re-transmission in multi-hop wireless networks are provided. In some embodiments, RLP packet re-transmission only starts from the hop where L1 ARQ fails. This can result in an increased efficiency of radio resource utilization, such as in implementations where the last hop is more unstable than the remaining hops. In some embodiments, a short RLP recovery delay enables a higher number of re-transmissions of lost RLP packets which, in turn, translates into a higher target physical layer FER (frame error rate) being allowed and/or an increased system capacity. Alternately or additionally, a short RLP recovery delay may reduce the possibility of TCP re-transmission and slow start.
US09136932B2
The present invention relates to a method and a transceiver device in a wireless communication system that enable tuning of the polarization generated by a cross-polarized transmitting antenna configuration of an eNB. This is addressed by a solution where the polarization is adjusted (320) based on a quality indicator e.g. received (310) from one or more UEs. The quality indicator indicates the quality of the communication between the eNB and the UEs, and is used to determine if the adjustment of the antenna configuration is improving the quality of the communication or not. The tuning is thus an iteration (330) of the steps of adjusting (320) the polarization and of receiving (310) the quality indicator, and when the quality indicator has reached a pre-determined value, the iteration is stopped.
US09136928B2
A method of precoding implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system with multiple transmission ranks is disclosed. The method includes having a codebook for a transmission rank, precoding data in one or more layers with a precoding matrix selected from the codebook, and transmitting the precoded data to a user equipment, wherein the precoding matrix is selected according to a first description and a second description, which are unique to the precoding matrix, and wherein the second description provides a finer description of the codebook than the first description. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.
US09136926B2
In a MIMO system using a cross-polarized antenna structure, even if no ideal XPD can be obtained, the interference between different polarized waves can be reduced to allow an effective precoding to be executed. When a MIMO communication is performed between a transmitter and a receiver each using a cross-polarized antenna structure, a channel estimating and precoding selection section of the receiver performs a channel estimation of MIMO channels from the transmitter to the receiver, decides a precoding matrix of a projection matrix for mutually orthogonalizing or substantially orthogonalizing the channel response matrixes for respective different polarized waves, and feeds the determined precoding matrix back to the transmitter. In the transmitter, a precoding processing section applies the precoding matrix to the spatial stream corresponding to one of the polarized waves to perform a precoding, thereby allowing the transmitter to transmit the polarized waves with the orthogonality therebetween maintained.
US09136920B2
A reception apparatus obtains a first channel estimated value from a reference signal of each layer and a known reference signal that are received and multiplies the first channel estimated value by an orthogonal signal sequence in each layer. Subsequently, the reception apparatus synthesizes a signal in each layer and, from the orthogonal signal sequence and the synthesized signal, calculates an adaptive array antenna weight. Next, the reception apparatus carries out antenna synthesis of the data signal and the reference signal by using the above weight for each layer and obtains a second channel estimated value from the reference signal subjected to the synthesis. Then, the reception apparatus carries out MIMO demodulation from a result of the channel estimation for each layer described above.
US09136913B2
An arrangement for managing bi-directional wireless communication between a controller and a plurality of controllable-devices wherein each controllable-device is able to provide operable function specific instructions to the controller as to how it would like to be operated by the controller and wherein a proximity mechanism means provides bidirectional communications over a distance of a few centimeters between the controller and the or each controllable-device.
US09136911B2
To realize a transmission function of power line communication by a further simplified and cost-effective circuit configuration, in a PLC modem installed in an electric appliance such as a household electrical appliance. A semiconductor switching element that is present on an electric circuit connected to a power line is driven by a modulator unit. The modulator unit controls ON/OFF operations of the semiconductor switching element, to thereby cause a communication signal of a modulated rectangular wave to be output to the power line for a prescribed period.
US09136909B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for coupling a modem to a power supply network for transmitting data via the power supply network, comprising a mains connection, which is configured to connect the apparatus to a phase conductor, a neutral conductor and a protective earth conductor of the power supply network, with the apparatus comprising a first transformer element comprising a primary side winding, a first secondary side winding and a second secondary side winding, and with the apparatus comprising a second transformer element comprising a primary side winding, a first secondary side winding and a second secondary side winding.
US09136906B2
In one embodiment, the presence of double talk (DT) is detected in a telecommunications network having a near-end user and a far-end user. The energies of both (1) a signal received from the far-end user by the near-end user and (2) a signal to be communicated from the near-end user to the far-end user are computed. An echo return loss (ERL) estimate is calculated based on the energy calculations, and a preliminary decision is made as to whether DT is present based on the ERL estimate and the energy calculations. If DT is detected, then a counter is set to a hangover value. If DT is not detected, then the counter is reduced. This process is repeated, and, for each iteration, a final decision as to whether DT is present is made based on the counter value.
US09136900B2
A wireless communication apparatus is provided that performs wireless communication using a specified wireless channel and forms part of an ad hoc wireless network. The device includes a recording portion that records country ID information and recording-time information in to a storage medium, where the recording-time information indicates the time at which the country ID information was recorded in to the storage medium, a time determination portion that uses the recording-time information to determine whether a predetermined time period has elapsed from the time at which the country ID information was recorded, and a channel setting portion that, when the predetermined time period has not elapsed from the time at which the country ID information was recorded in the storage medium, sets a wireless channel to a frequency channel that can be used in the country indicated by the country ID information recorded in the storage medium.
US09136896B2
A back cover structure disposed on the back of the portable electronic device includes a cover body, a plurality of replaceable adornments and a switching structure. The cover body has an outer surface, an inner surface opposite to the outer surface and facing the portable electronic device, and a through hole passing through the cover body and connected between the outer surface and the inner surface. The replaceable adornments are applied to the cover body, and any one of the replaceable adornments is adapted to and detachably disposed in the through hole of the cover body according to different requirements. The switching structure is disposed on the inner surface of the cover body to secure the replaceable adornment on the cover body or release the replaceable adornment from the cover body.
US09136893B2
A receiver includes a local signal generator, a power phase adjuster, and a frequency converter so as to perform frequency conversion on signals included in a plurality of radio frequency bands. The local signal generator supplies a plurality of local signals. The power phase adjuster adjusts local signals in terms of signal power or relative phases. The frequency converter performs frequency conversion on radio frequency bands by use of local signals adjusted with the power phase adjuster, thus sorting them in a desired frequency range.
US09136891B2
This application presents a direct data recovery from subspaces or parameters subranges of a received OFDM signal preidentified as corresponding to specific data symbols, by applying adaptive data decoding (ADD) method for reversing both original data coding and deterministic and random distortions introduced by a transmission channel, wherein both reversals are achieved by the same conversion of the subspaces or parameter subranges into data transmitted originally in order to eliminate an intermediate recovery of signals or parameters transmitted originally within the received OFDM signal. The ADD includes using both amplitudes and gradients of amplitudes of OFDM tone signals.
US09136890B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with signal detection with an adjustable number of interfering signals. According to one embodiment an apparatus includes an interferer counter, a detection method selector, and a signal detector. The interferer counter is configured to identify a number of active interfering signals in a received signal. The detection method selector is configured to select a signal detection method based, at least in part, on the number of active interfering signals identified by the interferer counter. In this manner, when one interfering signal is identified, a detection method having a first order is selected; and when two interfering signals are identified, the detection method having a second order is selected. The signal detector is configured to process the received signal according to the signal detection method selected by the detection method selector to detect an intended signal in the received signal.
US09136883B1
Disclosed herein are an analog compensation circuit and a method for tuning an analog compensator in full-duplex transmission systems. An embodiment analog compensation circuit includes a secondary receiver configured to receive and convert a sampled self-interference signal to a baseband self-interference signal. A tuner is coupled to the secondary receiver and configured to receive a baseband transmit signal and the baseband self-interference signal, and to compute complex gains according to the baseband transmit signal and the baseband self-interference signal. An analog compensator is coupled to the tuner and has multiple branches. The analog compensator is configured to receive the complex gains and use them to adjust respective attenuators and phase shifters of the branches. The analog compensator is further configured to process a sample of a transmit signal using the branches, the transmit signal being up-converted from a new baseband transmit signal.
US09136868B1
An improved analog to digital converter comprises at least one delta sigma analog to digital converter stage and a succession of pipelined analog to digital converter stages. The pipelined analog to digital converter stages may have a sampling rate determined separately from that of the at least one delta-sigma analog to digital converter stage. The sampling rate of the at least one delta sigma analog to digital converter stage may be an oversampling rate. The sampling rate of the at least one delta-sigma analog to digital converter stages and the pipeline stages may be adjusted by adjusting their sampling frequency and the number of effective pipeline stages may be adjusted—for example, by adjusting a sampling frequency input at each stage. The effective number of pipeline stages may be adjusted, for example, based on the precision needed to process the current signal.
US09136856B1
A circuit includes a track and hold (T/H) block to track an analog input signal during a track phase and to hold the analog input signal during a hold phase. A pipelined converter stage includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) receives the analog input signal from the T/H block and generates a digital output signal corresponding to the analog input signal. A digital to analog converter (DAC) element in the pipelined converter stage receives the digital output signal from the ADC and generates a current output signal representing an analog value for a portion of the analog input signal. A detector monitors the current output signal of the DAC element with respect to a predetermined reference current during the track phase and generates a trim signal if the current output signal is different from the predetermined reference current.
US09136851B2
An atomic oscillator includes an alkali metal cell encapsulating an alkali metal atom; a light source that emits laser light; a light detector that detects light which has passed through the alkali metal cell; and a polarizer arranged between the alkali metal cell and the light detector. A modulation frequency in the light source is controlled, according to a coherent population trapping resonance which is a light absorption characteristic of a quantum interference effect for two kinds of resonant lights, by modulating the light source to generate sidebands and injecting laser lights with the sidebands into the alkali metal cell. A magnetic field is applied on the alkali metal cell in a direction parallel to a propagating direction of the laser light, and the laser light entering the alkali metal cell has a linear polarization, which is not parallel to a polarization direction of the polarizer.
US09136848B2
High speed precessionally switched magnetic logic devices and architectures are described. In a first example, a magnetic logic device includes an input electrode having a first nanomagnet and an output electrode having a second nanomagnet. The spins of the second nanomagnet are non-collinear with the spins of the first nanomagnet. A channel region and corresponding ground electrode are disposed between the input and output electrodes. In a second example, a magnetic logic device includes an input electrode having an in-plane nanomagnet and an output electrode having a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) magnet. A channel region and corresponding ground electrode are disposed between the input and output electrodes.
US09136841B2
A capacitance difference detecting circuit with a control circuit, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a voltage control unit and a computing device. The control circuit generates a control signal according to a first voltage and a second voltage. The voltage control unit cooperates with the first capacitor to be detected and the second capacitor to be detected, according to the control signal, to generate the first voltage and the second voltage. The computing device computes a capacitance difference between the first capacitor to be detected and the second capacitor to be detected according to the first voltage, the second voltage and a parameter of the voltage control unit.
US09136837B2
A switching circuit includes first and second MOS transistors of the same conductive type. The second MOS transistor has a drain connected to a first terminal, a source connected to a load connecting terminal, a gate connected to a gate of the first MOS transistor, and a back gate connected to a source of the first MOS transistor. The switching circuit includes a circuit that controls a current flowing between the source of the first MOS transistor and a resistor connecting terminal so that the potential of the source of the first MOS transistor and the potential of the source of the second MOS transistor are equal. This switching circuit further includes a circuit that outputs a control signal to the gate of the first MOS transistor and the gate of the second MOS transistor and controls the operations of the first MOS transistor and the second MOS transistor.
US09136830B1
A data signal receiver includes a clock signal filter, a falling pulse signal generator, a mixing block, and a sampler. The clock signal filter generates a first filtered clock signal and a second filtered clock signal by filtering a clock signal. The falling pulse signal generator generates a falling pulse signal based on the first filtered clock signal. The mixing block generates a mixed data signal by mixing a data signal and the falling pulse signal. The sampler generates a recovered data signal by sampling the mixed data signal in response to the second filtered clock signal.
US09136826B2
Embodiments of an integrated circuit (IC) comprising frequency change detection circuitry are described. Some embodiments include first circuitry to generate a second clock signal based on a first clock signal, wherein the first clock signal has a first clock frequency, and wherein the second clock signal has a second clock frequency that is an integral multiple of the first clock frequency. The embodiments further include second circuitry to obtain samples by oversampling the first clock signal using the second clock signal. Additionally, the embodiments include third circuitry to detect a change in the first clock frequency based on the samples.
US09136823B2
A duplexer includes a reception filter that is connected between a reception terminal and an antenna terminal and includes one or a plurality of series resonators that are acoustic wave resonators, and a transmission filter that is connected between a transmission terminal and the antenna terminal and includes one or a plurality of acoustic wave resonators, a resonance frequency of a first series resonator that is one of the one or the plurality of series resonators and is closest to the antenna terminal in the reception filter being higher than an upper limit frequency of a reception band of the reception filter.
US09136820B2
A piezoelectric device according to the present invention is provided with a pair of electrode films, a piezoelectric film sandwiched in between the pair of electrode films, and a stress control film which is in direct contact with a surface of at least one of the pair of electrode films, on the side where the electrode film is not in contact with the piezoelectric film, and which has a linear expansion coefficient larger than those of the relevant electrode film and the piezoelectric film.
US09136811B2
Automatic Gain Control (AGC) system for multi-channel signals attenuates an incoming multi-channel signal by providing a gain. The system further adjusts each individual channel, of the multi-channel signal, by supplying a second gain if needed. The AGC system is designed to ensure a received signal power is at an optimal level for analog to digital conversion or any other form of signal processing. The system also enables elimination of mid-packet gain adjustments.
US09136802B2
Devices and methods for correcting for start-up transients in integrated power amplifier are disclosed. A power amplifier is responsive to a bias control output and is arranged to provide an amplified power output. In some examples, the boost current is adjusted based on a supply voltage and an input power of the power amplifier. The power amplifier can operate in a low power and a high power mode and the adjustments can be made to the supply voltage and/or the input power vary depending on whether the power amplifier is operating in the high or low power mode. The adjustments for the high power mode operation are different than and correspond to the high power mode input power and voltage and the adjustments for the low power mode operation are different than and correspond to the low power mode input power and voltage.
US09136801B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a driver circuit that drives a transmission line, an output terminal coupled to the output of the driver circuit, and a variable-impedance circuit. The variable-impedance circuit is coupled, for example, between the driver circuit and the output terminals for series-termination of the transmission line.
US09136800B2
Devices and methods to reduce adjacent channel power of an amplifier are described. The adjacent channel power can be reduced by considering the third harmonic output from the amplifier, and minimizing such third harmonic amplitude by implementing a phase shifter feedback circuit to the amplifier. The phase shifter feedback circuit can shift the phase of the feedback signal in order to reduce the third harmonic amplitude, which in turn reduces the adjacent channel power.
US09136794B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for modulating electric current. An electron source electrode provides a flow of electrons in a partial vacuum environment. An ionizable gas in the partial vacuum environment forms positively charged ion particles in response to impact with the electrons from the electron source electrode. Application of a bias voltage differential between a first bias electrode and a second bias electrode in the partial vacuum environment forms an electric field gradient in a path of the flow of electrons. A collector electrode in the partial vacuum environment collects more electrons than ion particles when a collector electrode input voltage is above a threshold, and collects more ion particles than electrons when the collector electrode input voltage is below the threshold.
US09136793B2
A resonator element includes a substrate including a vibrating portion that performs thickness-shear vibration and an excitation electrode provided on top and bottom main surfaces of the vibrating portion. Assuming that the average plate thickness calculated from the plate thicknesses of a plurality of regions of the vibrating portion is H and the plate thickness difference, which is a difference between the maximum and minimum values of the plate thicknesses of the plurality of regions of the vibrating portion, is ΔH, 0%<ΔH/H≦0.085% is satisfied as a relationship between H and ΔH.
US09136776B2
A current supply arrangement (A, B) for rectifying three-phase current into multi-pulse DC current with at least one three-phase AC current transformer with a transformer core or three single-phase AC current transformers, each having a transformer core, wherein the three-phase AC current transformer includes three first secondary-side coils (L21, L22, L23), each of which is arranged on a corresponding leg of the transformer core, wherein each secondary side coil is arranged on a leg of the transformer cores, with at least one first rectifier having first converter valves (D1, D2, D3). The first converter valves (D1, D2, D3) are connected with the first secondary-side coils (L21, L22, L23) to form the first rectifier, wherein the current supply arrangement (A, B) includes means (S1, S2, S3) for changing the transformer ratio of the three-phase AC current transformer or the transformer ratios of the three single-phase AC current transformers.
US09136775B2
In a process of changing an AC voltage from zero to +Ed (or negative to positive) or from zero to −Ed (or positive to negative), a control method in accordance with some aspects of the invention detects voltage across the capacitors and when the detected voltage is lower than a predetermined voltage value, switching operation pattern capable of charging the capacitor is given to the switching elements during a short period of time; when the detected voltage is higher than the predetermined voltage value, a switching operation pattern capable of discharging the capacitor is given to the switching elements during a short period of time. Thus, the width of voltage variation of the capacitors is limited within a specified variation range.
US09136770B2
An adapter power supply of the invention comprises a switching element that performs switching of an input voltage obtained by rectifying an input AC voltage to deliver switched voltage to a primary winding of an isolating transformer, a diode that rectifies a voltage obtained across a secondary winding of the isolating transformer to obtain a DC output voltage, and a thermoelectric conversion element that performs thermoelectric conversion to variably set the DC output voltage corresponding to a temperature difference between a heated temperature of the switching element or the diode and an atmospheric temperature. The thermoelectric conversion element is disposed between a heat sink attached to the switching element or the diode and a package for containing a main body of the adapter power supply.
US09136768B2
A switching power supply device includes: a power factor correction circuit having a step-up chopper circuit including a chopper switching element and a power factor correction control unit controlling a switching operation of the chopper switching element; a DC/DC converter having a transformer, a switching circuit, a rectifier circuit, a smoothing circuit, and a DC/DC converter control unit; and a control ON/OFF circuit controlling the ON/OFF states of an output voltage of the DC/DC converter circuit. The switching circuit is provided at a primary winding side of the transformer. The rectifier circuit and the smoothing circuit are provided at a secondary winding side of the transformer. The control ON/OFF circuit controls the ON/OF states of the output voltage of the DC/DC converter circuit by controlling the power factor correction control unit and the DC-DC converter control unit based on an external signal.
US09136767B2
A switching power-supply device comprises: a transformer; a switching element connected in series with a primary coil; an output voltage generation circuit to generate an output voltage from a voltage generated in a secondary coil; a control circuit power-supply-voltage generation circuit to generate a power-supply voltage from a voltage generated in an auxiliary coil; a feedback control circuit to control an ON width of the switching element by using the voltage generated in the auxiliary coil; a voltage reduction detection circuit to output a pulse signal to the secondary coil when a reduction of the output voltage is detected; a voltage-reduction-signal detection circuit to detect the voltage reduction signal transmitted to the primary coil from the secondary coil; and a trigger circuit to output a trigger signal to turn on the switching element when the voltage reduction signal is detected by the voltage-reduction-signal detection circuit.
US09136765B2
A power converter controller includes a primary controller that is galvanically isolated from a secondary controller. The primary controller controls a state of a power switch during a first mode of operation according to a switching pattern defined by the primary controller. During a second mode of operation, the primary controller controls the state of the power switch in response to control signals received via a communication link. The secondary controller operates in a powered down state during the first mode of operation. The secondary controller initiates a transition operation with the primary controller that transitions the primary controller and the secondary controller from the first mode of operation to the second mode of operation. In the second mode of operation, the secondary controller transmit the control signals to the primary controller via the communication link.
US09136764B2
Power control systems and power control devices may include a power control chip having a power control module configured to generate a power stage control signal, and an external power stage having a timing control module. The timing control module may be configured to receive the power stage control signal and generate a timing control signal controlling at least one switch to regulate an output voltage of the external power stage. The power control device further includes an auto-configuration module configured to communicate with the external power stage and request auto-configuration information from the external power stage. A related method of auto-configuring a power control system includes communicating auto-configuration information between at least one external power stage of a power control system and a power control chip, and configuring a setting of the at least one external power stage of the power control system based on the auto-configuration information.
US09136761B2
The present invention realized miniaturization of a power supply device using a multiphase system. The power supply device includes, for example, a common control unit, a plurality of PWM-equipped drive units, and a plurality of inductors. The common control unit outputs clock signals respectively different in phase to the PWM-equipped drive units. The clock signals are controllable in voltage state individually respectively. For example, the clock signal can be brought to a high impedance state. In this case, the PWM-equipped drive unit detects this high impedance state and stops its own operation. It is thus possible to set the number of phases in multiphase arbitrarily without using another enable signal or the like.
US09136760B2
The present invention relates to a switched mode voltage regulator circuit comprising a regulation loop coupled between the output voltage of the regulator and a switch driver. The regulation loop comprising an error signal generator supplying a digital error signal representative of a voltage difference between the output voltage and a reference voltage. The regulation loop further comprises a linear digital filter and a non-linear digital filter both coupled for receipt of the digital error signal and a digital summer coupled for receipt of linearly and non-linearly filtered digital error signals to provide a combined digital error signal. A digital pulse modulator is configured to generate the pulse width or pulse density modulated driver control signal in accordance with the combined digital error signal.
US09136756B2
Various embodiments of the invention provide for single and dual phase charge pump, two stage DC/DC buck-boost converters having fast line and load transient control irrespective of load conditions. In certain embodiments of the invention, this is accomplished by controlling a desired output voltage with an error amplifier that controls a plurality of hysteresis comparators. A dual phase charge pump architecture eliminates ripple currents and mode transitions and increases efficiency by splitting the total current between two paths. Certain embodiments allow to use low voltage semiconductor devices, which significantly reduces switching losses and further increases efficiency.
US09136755B2
A bipolar output charge pump circuit having a network of switching paths 110 for selectively connecting an input node (VV) and a reference node (VG) for connection to an input voltage, a first pair of output nodes (VP, VN), two pairs of flying capacitor nodes (CF1A, CF1B; CF2A, CF2B), and a controller for controlling the switching of the network of switching paths. The controller is operable to control the network of switching paths when in use with two flying capacitors (CF1, CF2) connected to the two pairs of flying capacitor nodes, to provide a first mode and a second mode when in use with two flying capacitors connected to the flying capacitor nodes, wherein at least the first mode corresponds to a bipolar output voltage of +/−3VV, +/−VV/5 or +/−VV/6.
US09136754B2
The described technology relates generally to a power supply, a display device including the same, and a driving method thereof to reduce power consumption of the display device. Embodiments include a power source voltage controller sensing a panel current flowing in the display panel and controlling a feedback voltage according to the panel current and the power source voltage, and a DC-DC converter generating a power source voltage according to the feedback voltage to respectively supply it to the plurality of light emitting elements.
US09136751B2
A magnetic shield having non-magnetic gaps provides reduced magnetic cross-talk for a linear motor array in a precision positioning system. Redirecting the leakage flux limits the cross-talk and associated deleterious effects. Such preferred magnetic circuit paths for the leakage are affixed to the moving magnet system of the linear motor. Embodiments of the preferred flux leakage paths are realized by providing a ferromagnetic shield separated by a non-magnetic gap between the permanent magnets and the back-irons. In another embodiment, the ferromagnetic shield separation includes diamagnetic materials.
US09136750B2
A motor capable of performing mechanical position adjustment of a magnetic detection unit to thereby adjust a phase difference between signals output from respective two magnetosensitive pole pieces. A rotor includes a magnet having an axial end surface magnetized to have circumferentially alternately different poles. A stator has two outer magnetic pole portions opposed to an outer peripheral surface of the magnet. Two coils are energized to excite the outer magnetic pole portions. A magnetic sensor is opposed to an axial end surface of the magnet. The magnetosensitive pole pieces of the magnetic sensor detect a magnetic field change caused by rotation of the magnet. The magnetosensitive pole pieces are arranged side by side in a direction orthogonal to a diametrical direction of the magnet. The position of the magnetic sensor can be adjusted in the diametrical direction of the magnet.
US09136748B2
In a variable reluctance resolver having terminal pins at an insulator, a technique for preventing deformation of the terminal pins, shorting between the terminal pins, and contact failure at portions of the terminal pins is provided. A first insulator 300 is formed together with a terminal pin base 311 on which terminal pins 320 are provided. The terminal pins 320 are connected with end portions of windings of a stator coil 500. A cover 330 is mounted on the terminal pin base 311 by covering, and resin is filled inside the cover 330. The resin is also applied to the stator coil 500. The resin filled inside the cover 330 seals the terminal pins 320, and the cover 330 protects the terminal pins 320.
US09136747B2
A hybrid excitation machine comprising a rotor having first and second rotor cores with an axial gap between; a stator placed radially outward of the rotor; and an exciting coil fixed to the stator placed in an air gap between the stator and rotor to protrude radially inward from the stator. In an axial direction, an axial end of a radially outer end of the first rotor core located on the second rotor core side and the second rotor core are positioned on opposite sides of an axial end of the exciting coil located on the first rotor core side, and an axial end of a radially outer end of the second rotor core located on the first rotor core side and the first rotor core are positioned on opposite sides of the axial end of the exciting coil located on the second rotor core side.
US09136741B2
A flywheel energy storage system incorporates various embodiments in design and processing to achieve a very high ratio of energy stored per unit cost. The system uses a high-strength steel rotor rotating in a vacuum envelope. The rotor has a geometry that ensures high yield strength throughout its cross-section using various low-cost quenched and tempered alloy steels. Low-cost is also achieved by forging the rotor in a single piece with integral shafts. A high energy density is achieved with adequate safety margins through a pre-conditioning treatment. The bearing and suspension system utilizes an electromagnet that off-loads the rotor allowing for the use of low-cost, conventional rolling contact bearings over an operating lifetime of several years.
US09136740B2
A controller-integrated electric rotating machine according to the present invention is provided with a heat sink on which a plurality of power modules included in an electric-power conversion circuit are mounted, a power-input/output conductor that is fixed to a bus bar electrically connected with a DC power source and is electrically connected with the DC power source and the bus bar, and a case, made of an insulator, that is fixed to the heat sink and is provided with a terminal that is electrically connected with the bus bar and the plurality of power modules; the bus bar is provided with a single electric connection portion and at least one mechanical connection portion other than the electric connection portion, electrically connected with the terminal by means of the single electric connection portion, and mechanically connected with the heat sink or the bracket through an insulating material by means of the at least one mechanical connection portion.
US09136734B2
A transmission-guard is disclosed for preventing an inductive power outlet from transmitting power in the absence of an inductive power receiver. A transmission lock is associated with an inductive power outlet and a transmission key is associated with an inductive power receiver. The transmission lock is configured to prevent a primary inductor from connecting to the power supply unless triggered by a release signal via the transmission key.
US09136730B2
An energy storage system includes: a new renewable energy unit generating a new renewable energy power; a DC link connected to the new renewable energy unit and generating a DC link power; a power system connected to the DC link and generating a power system power; a battery connected to the DC link and generating a battery power; an auxiliary power generator connected to the power system, the new renewable energy unit, the DC link, and the battery, respectively, and generating an auxiliary power; and an integrated controller connected to the auxiliary power generator and receiving the auxiliary power. The auxiliary power is selected from one of the power system power, the new renewable energy power, the DC link power, and the battery power.
US09136729B2
A power tool system includes a power tool, a power tool battery pack and a battery pack charger. The power tool battery pack is separable from and attachable to the power tool, and electrically connectable to the power tool electrical terminals when attached to the power tool. The power tool battery pack has at least one battery cell, a receiver coil, and a control circuit for controlling the amount of power that is provided to the at least one battery cell. The battery pack charger has at least one transmitter coil for generating a magnetic field which induces a voltage in the receiver coil, and a control circuit for controlling the amount of power that is provided to the transmitter coil.
US09136726B2
A battery system for a movable object is mounted on the movable object having a charger and a load unit including a plurality of loads electrically driven for different purposes. The battery system is provided with a plurality of battery packs, a power control circuit for changing a connection state between the battery packs and the charger and a connection state between the battery packs and the load unit, a memory unit for storing operation information, an estimation unit for estimating a power consumption pattern in the operation cycle based on the operation information and a controller for switching the power control circuit to cover the power consumption by the load unit according to the power consumption pattern.
US09136725B2
A charging method and apparatus, the apparatus including: an adaptor to receive power from a predetermined power source and output a first voltage; a narrow voltage direct current (NVDC) charging unit to convert the first voltage into a second voltage, and supply power to a battery and a system terminal of a mobile device; and a control unit to control the NVDC charging unit to adjust a charging current to be supplied to the battery based on a state of the system terminal, wherein the second voltage is lower than the first voltage.
US09136721B2
The present invention is a power supply device for electric power tool that supplies an electric power to an electric power tool. The power supply device includes: an adapter configured to be electrically connected to the electric power tool; and a fuel cell configured to generate an electric power to be supplied to the electric power tool through the adapter, by causing an oxidation reaction between a fuel and an oxidant.
US09136720B2
A control unit of a vehicle power control apparatus performs an operation described below. The control unit fluctuates a voltage of an alternating-current power output from a discharging terminal with a power supplier when the control unit detects that a receiving terminal of an alternating-current load or a charging terminal is connected to the discharging terminal, or that a supply terminal of an alternating-current power supply or the discharging terminal is connected to the charging terminal. Also, the control unit directs a notifying portion to perform a notifying operation when the control unit detects that a voltage of alternating-current power input to the charging terminal is fluctuating in the same manner that a voltage of alternating-current power output from the discharging terminal is fluctuating.
US09136712B2
The invention provides systems and methods for control of power charge/discharge from energy storage system. The invention also provides for power monitoring and management. A smart charge system may include a system sensor, one or more energy storage units, and a controller, which may receive information about the power demand, power provided by an electricity provider, and charge/discharge information from an energy storage unit. The information received may all be time synchronized in relation to a time based reference. The controller may provide instructions to an energy storage unit at a rapid rate.
US09136709B2
A power conversion system for providing power to an electrical grid is described. The system includes a power converter coupled to a direct current (DC) power source. The system also includes a contactor coupled to the power converter and the electrical grid and configured to selectively electrically couple the power converter to the electrical grid. The system also includes a system controller communicatively coupled to the power converter and the contactor and configured to close the contactor to electrically couple the power converter to the electrical grid and to activate the power converter when a DC voltage provided has remained higher than a voltage level for a length of time. The system controller is also configured to deactivate the power converter, while the contactor is maintained in the closed position, when an alternating current (AC) power output has remained lower than a power level for a length of time.
US09136702B2
Disclosed herein are an electrostatic discharge protection device including: a substrate; a pair of electrodes formed on the substrate so as to be spaced apart from each other; and an insulating layer formed on the electrodes, wherein each of the electrodes has a shape in which it protrudes from a cross section thereof toward a surface thereof, and a manufacturing method thereof, and a composite electronic component including the same.
US09136697B2
A Substation Automation (SA) system is configured to perform protection functions for a bay of an electrical power distribution substation, receive, via a communication link, redundancy protection commands from a remote center, and execute the redundancy protection commands for the bay. The SA system is configured to transmit to a redundant protection server of the remote center, process values measured by measurement equipment of the substation, and to receive, from the redundant protection server, and forward, via the process bus, the received redundancy protection commands directed to operating equipment of the substation. Thus, for multiple SA systems, redundant protection functions are implemented and provided cost-efficiently by one common remote central unit.
US09136694B2
In an installation controlling the operation of one or more motors driving a mechanism for deploying or retracting a protective canopy over the cargo compartment of a truck or wagon, a method and device for protecting the motor windings against excessive power use by measuring the level of drawn current with a digital ammeter. If the current exceeds a threshold level of operation, a timer is started. As soon as a given absolute safe period of operation is surpassed, a breaker switch is tripped interrupting the motor power supply. A plural number of trip points can be programmed into the device.
US09136687B2
Provided is an article comprising a flexible tube having an inner surface, an outer surface, a first end and a second end, the inner surface at least partially covered with a low friction material. Also provided is an article comprising a cold shrinkable sleeve disposed on a tubular support core in a stretched condition, at least a portion of the cold shrinkable sleeve folded such that at least one portion of the cold shrinkable sleeve overlaps another portion of the cold shrinkable sleeve, wherein a flexible tube having an inner surface, an outer surface, a first end and a second end, the inner surface at least partially covered with a low friction material, is positioned between the overlapping portions of the cold shrinkable sleeve.
US09136681B1
A bracket for holding conductors at a selected distance from the surface of a wall board to be mounted to a building stud. The bracket has a channel formed between a pair of plates and a bendable strap for closing the channel. The strap has an angularly oriented return to engage a side wall and a locking tab to hold the strap in closed position. The channel width is adjustable to accommodate different sized conductors. One of the plates has a bend line for adjusting the total width of the bracket for mounting on a narrower stud.
US09136680B2
Protective fittings for tubular conduit are provided herein. An exemplary protective fitting includes a substantially tubular body sized such that an outer peripheral surface of the tubular body is configured to frictionally contact at least a portion of the threaded inner surface of the tubular conduit to releaseably secure the substantially tubular body to the terminal end of the tubular conduit when the substantially tubular body is inserted therein, and a flange extending from the outer peripheral surface of the terminal end of the substantially tubular body. The protective fitting prevents wiring extending from the terminal end of the tubular conduit from contacting the peripheral edge of the terminal end of the tubular conduit.
US09136678B2
A protector includes a bottom plate part on which a plurality of electric wires is placed on the same plane, a pair of side parts that is provided to erect from the bottom plate part so that the electric wires is interposed between the pair of the side parts, a distance between the pair of the side parts corresponding to crank-shaped curved parts of the electric wires being larger than a distance between the pair of the side parts corresponding to front and rear linear parts of the crank-shaped curved parts of the electric wires, and a protector fixing part that is provided on the bottom plate part so that the protector fixing part is positioned between the crank-shaped curved parts provided next to each other.
US09136677B2
A flush cut tool is configured with a support unit operative to hold an armored cable in a desired position. The flush cut tool is further configured with a cutting unit including a hand crank, a blade assembly fixed to the hand crank and a friction assembly. The hand crank is configured to rotate relative to the friction assembly about a pivot axis until the blade assembly is brought in contact with the jacket of the cable. Thereafter, the hand crank, blade assembly and friction unit continue t rotate together about the axis of the cable so that the blade assembly is operative to produce a ring cut.
US09136674B2
A dead tank vacuum circuit breaker of the invention has an object to obtain a dead tank vacuum circuit breaker in which an immovable end of a vacuum valve is supported on a tank immovable side via an insulating support member and a support frame or the immovable end of the vacuum valve is supported on a tank movable side via an insulating support rod, so that an insulating support member supporting a movable end of the vacuum valve is omitted, while an opening portion is provided to the movable side of the tank and a bushing center conductor has a slidable connection portion that is axially expandable and contractible, so that a de-assembly range can be minimized when the vacuum valve is replaced.
US09136672B2
An optical light source is provided. The optical light source includes a waveguide including two reflectors arranged spaced apart from each other to define an optical cavity therebetween, an optical gain medium, and a coupling structure arranged to couple light between the optical cavity and the optical gain medium.
US09136668B2
A laser amplifier module having an enclosure includes an input window, a mirror optically coupled to the input window and disposed in a first plane, and a first amplifier head disposed along an optical amplification path adjacent a first end of the enclosure. The laser amplifier module also includes a second amplifier head disposed along the optical amplification path adjacent a second end of the enclosure and a cavity mirror disposed along the optical amplification path.
US09136659B2
A multi-voltage compatible track system which has a single adapter for both 120 Volts and 277 Volts track systems. The systems further comprise a variable input voltage ballast capable of operating with both 120V and 277V input while operating properly.
US09136655B2
The present invention provides a coaxial RF cable connection device that connects a coaxial RF cable to a printed circuit board having one side on which a signal transmission pattern is formed and having another side on which a ground plane is formed. The devices has central body with a support opening into which the cable is penetrated and inserted and a solder block with a pair of auxiliary bodies respectively protruded from both sides of the central body. The printed circuit board has a cutting portion formed by cutting and removing a part of the edge. A pair of through holes are formed on both sides of the cutting portion and is soldered on one side of the printed circuit board.
US09136654B2
A post-less coaxial cable connector includes a body, a shell, a compression ring, and a coupling portion. The shell has a collapsible groove that, when the post-less coaxial cable connector is axially compressed, collapses and engages the coaxial cable. This provides pull strength and electrical communication in the post-less coaxial cable connector. The compression ring has projections, that when the post-less coaxial cable connector is axially compressed, engage the coaxial cable jacket, providing sealing at the back end and rotation torque.
US09136643B2
Electrical connector systems and devices are provided. Included are push-push electrical connectors, as well as push-twist electrical connectors. These electrical connectors are configured to be user friendly, space efficient, and safe.
US09136631B2
A connector comprises a first contact, a housing and an arrangement member other than the housing. The first contact has a contact portion and a terminal portion. The housing holds the contact portion of the first contact so that the contact portion extends along a first direction. The housing is provided with an engaged portion. The arrangement member holds the terminal portion of the first contact so that the terminal portion extends along a second direction intersecting the first direction. The arrangement member is provided with an engaging portion. The engaging portion engages the engaged portion in a direction intersecting the second direction so that the arrangement member is held by the housing and the terminal portion of the first contact is bent to extend along the second direction.
US09136630B1
An electrical connector for electrically connecting a first electronic element and a second electronic element, includes an insulating body having multiple receiving holes, a conducting assembly and an elastic member respectively received in each receiving hole, and an elastic member. The conducting assembly includes a first conductor, a second conductor and a third conductor electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor. The elastic member is used for elastically supporting the first conductor and the second conductor. One end of the first conductor is electrically conducted to the first electronic element, and one end of the second conductor is electrically conducted to the second electronic element. The conductor is spherical, which shortens the conducting path, lowers the height and impedance of the electrical connector, and improves the electrical performance. The elastic member can effectively avoid poor contact and instant disconnection.
US09136625B2
A connector assembly includes a plug connector and a receptacle connector mateable with each other. The plug connector includes a plug insulative housing and a pair of plug power contacts. The plug insulative housing includes a first plug cavity, a first plate cantileveredly extending into the first plug cavity, and upper and lower plug contact slots in communication with the first plug cavity. The pair of plug power contacts are respectively received in the upper and lower plug contact slots. Each plug power contact includes a flat contacting section exposed to the first plug cavity and a first soldering section. The flat contacting sections are positioned on upper and lower surfaces of the first plate, respectively. The plug connector and the receptacle connector define heat dissipation channels in communication with each other in order that generating heat can be effectively dissipated to the air.
US09136584B2
An antenna system includes a dielectrically-loaded loop element electromagnetically coupled to a planar element. The antenna system exhibits uniform, broadband radiation and reception patterns.
US09136581B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless terminal apparatus includes an antenna unit and a sensor unit in a housing. The sensor unit is disposed so that at least part of the sensor unit overlaps the antenna unit.
US09136577B2
An orthomode transducer (OMT) operable in a broadband (e.g. >30%), including a frequency above ˜30 GHz, with an isolation better than −50 dB, cross-polarizations better than −40 dB, an insertion loss between −0.1 and −0.3 dB for both polarizations, and return losses better than −25 dB can be produced substantially or entirely from CNC machining, comprises a turnstile for coupling a polarization diplexed waveguide with four waveguide paths; and two E-plane Y junctions each for coupling initially oppositely directed pairs of the waveguide paths such that each waveguide path has a same electrical length from the turnstile to the E-plane Y junctions as the waveguide path with which it is paired, such that the OMT is formed in 3-6 blocks, including a single block having a substantially planar mating surface that includes the matching feature, and defines one side of initial segments of the four waveguide paths. Reproducibility of these OMTs has been shown.
US09136573B2
The invention relates to a high-frequency transmission line including a central conductive strip (6) associated with at least one conductive shielding plane (4), wherein at least a portion of the space between the conductive plane and the conductive strip comprises a ferroelectric material (10).
US09136571B2
The invention relates to a driver assistance device (2) for a vehicle (1), having a radar apparatus (3, 4) for detecting objects which are external to the vehicle, which radar apparatus (3, 4) has an antenna unit (14) for irradiating and/or receiving electromagnetic waves (S0, SE) and a damping element (24, 25, 26) which is coupled to the antenna unit (14) and has the purpose of directing and damping the electromagnetic waves (S0, SE), by means of which damping element (24, 25, 26) the antenna unit (14) can be coupled to a transmitter and/or receiver device (16, 17) of the radar apparatus (3, 4), wherein the damping element (24, 25, 26) has a branching unit (31) with a first line branch (32) for directing the damped electromagnetic waves (S0, SE) between the transmitter and/or receiver device (16, 17), on the one hand and the antenna unit (14) on the other, as well as a second line branch (33) which is coupled to the first line branch (32) and is terminated with a reflection-free terminating element (35, 37). The invention also relates to a corresponding method.
US09136570B2
A cavity filter device includes a micro-strip structure comprising a low dielectric organic material forming a printed wiring board. The printed wiring board may be soldered, welded, or adhered to the base of one or more cavity filters. The cavity filter may include a coupling pin such as a RF pin positioned at the base of the filter. The micro-strip structure may be configured to carry a RF signal from the input, across the micro-strip structure to the RF pin positioned at the base of the filter.
US09136566B2
A battery pack (21A) according to embodiments of the present invention comprises a plurality of battery modules (11A-11D) connected to each other in either one or both of a series connection mode and a parallel connection mode. An identifying information setting section (25) sets identifying information on each of the plurality of battery elements (11A-11D). A connection mode managing section (47) manages the connection mode between the plurality of battery elements (11A-11D) by using the identifying information set by the identifying information setting section (25). The identifying information on each of the plurality of battery elements (11A-11D) is made up of a combination of first identifying information on the potential of the one of the plurality of battery elements (11A-11D) and second identifying information on the battery pack (21A) serving as a superordinate battery element to which the one of the plurality of battery elements (11A-11D) belongs.
US09136560B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte solution including a lithium salt, a non-aqueous solvent, a cyclic carbonate compound having an unsaturated bond and a compound of formula R21—S(O)2—F in which R2 is an alkyl group having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms that may be substituted by a fluorine atom or an alkenyl group having from 2 to 12 carbon atoms that may be substituted by a fluorine atom, and the alkyl group or alkenyl group may have an ether linkage within its chain.
US09136559B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte including a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and an electrolyte additive is provided. The electrolyte additive is a meta-stable state nitrogen-containing polymer formed by reacting Compound (A) and Compound (B). Compound (A) is a monomer having a reactive terminal functional group. Compound (B) is a heterocyclic amino aromatic derivative as an initiator. A molar ratio of Compound (A) to Compound (B) is from 10:1 to 1:10. A lithium secondary battery containing the non-aqueous electrolyte is further provided. The non-aqueous electrolyte of this disclosure has a higher decomposition voltage than a conventional non-aqueous electrolyte, such that the safety of the battery during overcharge or at high temperature caused by short-circuit current is improved.
US09136556B2
Disclosed herein is an electrode assembly of a cathode/separator/anode structure, wherein a plurality of first unit electrodes and a second electrode sheet are wound so that the first unit electrodes are opposite to the second electrode sheet via a separator sheet, and a first electrode and a second electrode have opposite polarities.
US09136551B2
The present invention relates to a novel sulfonate-based compound, a method for preparing the same, a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising the sulfonate-based compound, a membrane electrode assembly comprising the same and a fuel cell comprising the same.
US09136548B2
A method for operating, especially for starting, a fuel cell such as a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is disclosed which method includes a starting operation with a first or initial start phase and an optional second or intermediate start phase which is initiated when the fuel cell has reached a predetermined medium temperature below a steady state operational temperature range, before a steady state operation is activated. During the first or initial start phase fuel is subjected to an exothermic reaction with oxygen in a burner unit and output gases from the burner unit are used to warm up and passively heat the fuel cell. Furthermore, a fuel cell arrangement comprising a fuel cell, especially a SOFC hybrid system, for conducting this method is disclosed.
US09136546B2
A fuel cell stack includes: a first module configured to include an electrolyte membrane, an anode and a cathode; a second module configured to include a separator and placed adjacent to one surface of the first module via a first sealing member; and a third module configured to include a separator and placed adjacent to the other surface of the first module via a second sealing member. In this fuel cell stack, the first sealing member has the greater peel strength to the first module than the peel strength to the second module, and the second sealing member has the greater peel strength to the first module than the peel strength to the third module.
US09136543B2
A battery system (100) having a heating element (124), a thermal switch (130), a battery module (140), and a pin structure (170) is disclosed. The battery system (100) comprises: a battery case (110) forming an internal space; a battery module (140) located in the battery case and including a battery; a heating element structure (120) located in the battery case (110) and increasing the temperature of the battery System by heat generated by an impact; and a pin structure (170) for concentrating and transferring an external impact to a pre determined region of the heating element structure.
US09136540B2
An oxygen reduction electrode, e.g., an air cathode, comprising manganese oxides having octahedral molecular sieve structures as active catalyst materials and use of such an electrode as a component of a metal-air cell.
US09136531B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a core including a lithiated intercalation compound, and a MgO that is present as an island shape on the core surface and having an average nano-size; a method of manufacturing this positive active material, and a rechargeable lithium battery including this positive active material are provided.
US09136529B2
Good cycle performance is obtained with a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains as positive electrode active material a mixture of a lithium-manganese composite oxide and a lithium-transition metal composite oxide containing at least Ni and Mn as transition metals. The negative electrode contains as a negative electrode active material a material capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium. Charging of the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is controlled so that the end-of-charge voltage becomes higher than 4.3 V.
US09136519B2
A cap assembly and a battery pack having the same. The cap assembly includes: a cap plate including: a first surface; and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein a first hole penetrates through the cap plate from the first surface to the second surface; a first electrode terminal including: an upper terminal on the first surface of the cap plate; a lower terminal on the second surface of the cap plate; and a connection part that connects the upper terminal to the lower terminal through the first hole; a temperature protection device on an upper surface of the upper terminal; and an insulation part interposed between the cap plate and the first electrode terminal and including a first groove. Here, the upper terminal and the temperature protection device are in the first groove.
US09136508B2
A secondary battery is configured to reduce contact resistance by improving structures of an electrode tab and a lead. The secondary battery with enhanced contact resistance includes an electrode assembly in which a cathode plate having a cathode tab, an anode plate having an anode tab and a separator are stacked alternately, a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly, and an anode lead electrically connected to the anode tab, wherein the battery case is sealed while accommodating the electrode assembly, and the anode lead and the cathode tab are exposed out of the battery case.
US09136502B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate having organic light emitting diodes thereon. A thin film encapsulation layer is formed on the substrate such that the thin film encapsulation layer covers the organic light emitting diodes. A nonorganic layer is formed under the thin film encapsulation layer along the edge of the thin film encapsulation layer.
US09136501B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate, an opposing electrode disposed on the pixel electrode and transmitting light therethrough, an organic light-emitting layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the opposing electrode and emitting light toward at least the opposing electrode, a first transmission layer disposed on the opposing electrode and transmitting the light emitted from the organic light-emitting layer therethrough, and a second transmission layer disposed on a path of the light emitted from the organic light-emitting layer on the first transmission layer, and comprising a plurality of first materials having first refractive indices and a second material having a second refractive index. The first refractive indices are greater than the second refractive index, and the plurality of first materials are disposed inside the second material.
US09136494B2
A white light emitting material comprising a polymer having an emitting polymer chain and at least one emitting end capping group.
US09136486B2
The purpose of the invention is to provide: a composition for an organic semiconductor insulating film, which is capable of forming an insulating film that exhibits excellent hydrophobicity and smoothness of the surface, while having excellent electrical stability; and an organic semiconductor insulating film obtained by using the composition for an organic semiconductor insulating film. The present composition contains a polysiloxane and an organic polymer compound. The polysiloxane is a polyhedral silsesquioxane having an oxetanyl group and/or an oxetanyl group containing silicon compound represented by the following formula (1). In the formula (1), each of R1-R3 independently represents a monovalent organic group (provided that at least one of R1-R3 is a monovalent organic group having an oxetanyl group); and each of v, w, x and y independently represents 0 or a positive number (provided that w and at least one of v, x and y are positive numbers).
US09136484B2
The present invention relates to electroluminescent compounds of formula 1 where A and/or B represent fluorene, carbazole, dibenzo[b,d]thiophene or dibenzo[b,d]furan derivatives and L1, X1, Ar1, Ar2, R5, R6 and R7 are as defined herein, and organic electroluminescent devices comprising the same. The compounds according to the present invention have an advantage in manufacturing an organic electroluminescent device which has a high luminous efficiency and a long operational lifetime.
US09136479B2
Objects of the present invention are to provide novel anthracene derivatives and novel organic compounds; a light-emitting element that has high emission efficiency; a light-emitting element that is capable of emitting blue light with high luminous efficiency; a light-emitting element that is capable of operation for a long time; and a light-emitting device and an electronic device that have lower power consumption. An anthracene derivative represented by a general formula (1) and an organic compound represented by a general formula (17) are provided. A light-emitting element that has high emission efficiency can be obtained by use of the anthracene derivative represented by the general formula (1). Further, a light-emitting element that has a long life can be obtained by use of the anthracene derivative represented by the general formula (1).
US09136477B2
An organic light emissive device, which comprises: an anode; a cathode; and an organic light emissive region between the anode and the cathode, which region comprises a polymeric electroluminescent material; wherein the emission from the polymeric electroluminescent material is color shifted by the presence of a color shifting unit in the polymer.
US09136476B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light emitting display apparatus, and an organic light emitting display apparatus manufactured by the method, the method being suitable for mass producing a large substrate, enabling high-definition patterning, and allowing controlling of a distance between a patterning slit sheet and a substrate which are moved relative to each other.
US09136464B1
An MRAM device, and a process for manufacturing the device, provides improved breakdown distributions, a reduced number of bits with a low breakdown voltage, and an increased MR, thereby improving reliability, manufacturability, and error-free operation. A tunnel barrier is formed between a free layer and a fixed layer in three repeating steps of forming a metal material, interceded by oxidizing each of the metal materials. The oxidization of the third metal material is greater than the dose of the first metal, but less than the dose of the second metal. The fixed layer may include a discontinuous layer of a metal, for example, Ta, in the fixed layer between two layers of a ferromagnetic material.
US09136463B2
In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure including a conductive layer on a substrate. The method also includes depositing a sacrificial layer on the conductive layer before depositing a patterning film layer.
US09136444B2
The proposed illuminator relates to white-light lamps based on LEDs with remote photoluminescent converters. The illuminator comprises a heat removing base with a radiation output orifice, and the LEDs secured near the periphery of the orifice, with, arranged in series at a distance from the a concave photoluminescent converter layer and a concave light reflector, wherein the converter layer's and light reflector's concavities are oriented towards the LED's and the opening. White light mix of the LEDs' and converter layer's radiation exits via the orifice. The converter layer and reflector may have the form of a truncated ellipsoid of revolution, in particular a sphere, or a paraboloid, with a main axis perpendicular to the plane of the orifice, or a cylinder truncated by the plane of the orifice. The outside reflector' surface may have ribbed heat radiators associated with the heat removing base.
US09136430B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a silicon substrate, forming a buffer layer on the silicon substrate, and forming a nitride semiconductor layer on the buffer layer. The buffer layer includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer includes AlxInyGa1-x-yN (0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1, 0≦x+y≦1) and has a lattice constant LP1 that is smaller than a lattice constant LP0 of the silicon substrate. The second layer is formed on the first layer, includes AlxInyGa1-x-yN (0≦x<1, 0≦y<1, 0≦x+y<1), and has a lattice constant LP2 that is greater than LP1 and smaller than LP0. The third layer is formed on the second layer, includes AlxInyGa1-x-yN (0≦x<1, 0≦y<1, 0≦x+y<1), and has a lattice constant LP3 that is smaller than LP2.
US09136425B2
A semiconductor light emitting element includes a first substrate, a stacked body, an electrode, and a conductive layer. The first substrate has a first face and a first side face. The first side face intersects the first face. The first substrate includes a plurality of conductive portions and a plurality of insulating portions arranged alternately. The stacked body is aligned with the first substrate. The stacked body includes first and second semiconductor layers and a light emitting layer. The electrode is electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer. The conductive layer is electrically connected to at least one of the conductive portions and the second semiconductor layer. At least one of the insulating portions is disposed between the first side face and a portion of the conductive layer nearest to the first side face.
US09136413B2
A package structure and a solar cell with the same are provided. The package structure includes a transparent package bulk and at least one structure capable of changing a direction of light. The structure is disposed within the transparent package bulk and at a distance from a surface of the transparent package bulk. When applied to a solar cell, the package structure can reduce gridline shading.
US09136409B2
An optical device includes a first region and an isolating layer which are each provided in a semiconductor substrate. The first region configures a photoelectric converter and includes at least an impurity of a first conductivity type. The isolating layer is configured to inhibit passage of electrons. The isolating layer includes a second region which is below the first region and which includes an impurity of a second conductivity type, a third region which surrounds the first region in plan-view thereof and which includes an impurity of the second conductivity type, and a fourth region which surrounds the second region in plan-view thereof and which is connected to the third region. The fourth region is greater in width than a connecting part of the third region which connects the third region to the fourth region.
US09136403B2
In a semiconductor device including unit cells which are aligned in one direction, wirings disposed along end portions in the one direction have high Young's moduli.
US09136402B2
A flexible solar cell comprises an epitaxially grown III-V layer having a first layer grown on a base substrate, at least one intermediate layer grown on the first layer, and a cap layer grown on the at least one intermediate layer, the III-V layer being separated from the base substrate by controllably spalling the first layer from the base substrate; and a flexible substrate coupled to the epitaxially grown III-V layer. The flexible solar cell may be used to provide power to an electronic device.
US09136401B2
A compound semiconductor device includes a substrate, a p-type first semiconductor layer over the substrate and contains antimony, a p-type second semiconductor layer over the first semiconductor layer and contains antimony, an n-type third semiconductor layer over the second semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor layer between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, the fourth semiconductor layer containing phosphorus and having a thickness in which electrons tunnel between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, a first electrode in ohmic contact with the first semiconductor layer, and a second electrode in ohmic contact with the third semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer is made from a material whose contact resistance with the first electrode is lower than contact resistance of the second semiconductor layer.
US09136398B2
In one aspect of the present invention, the semiconductor device is a bipolar magnetic junction transistor (MJT), and includes a first non-magnetic semiconductor layer, a second non-magnetic semiconductor layer, and a magnetic semiconductor layer. The first non-magnetic semiconductor layer has majority charge carriers of a first polarity. The second non-magnetic semiconductor layer is disposed adjacent to the first non-magnetic semiconductor layer such that a first junction is formed at a first interface region between the first non-magnetic semiconductor layer and the second non-magnetic semiconductor layer. The magnetic semiconductor layer has majority charge carriers of the first polarity, and is disposed adjacent to the second non-magnetic semiconductor layer such that a second junction is formed at a second interface region between the second non-magnetic semiconductor layer and the magnetic semiconductor layer.
US09136392B2
According to one embodiment, the underlying film includes a memory region including a first trench and a peripheral region including a second trench. The stacked body includes conductive layers and insulating layers alternately stacked on the underlying film. The channel body is provided in a pair of first holes and the first trench. The first holes pierce the stacked body to be connected to the first trench. The memory film includes a charge storage film provided between a side wall of the first hole and the channel body, and between an inner wall of the first trench and the channel body. The conductor is provided in a pair of second holes and the second trench. The second holes pierce the stacked body to be connected to the second trench.
US09136386B2
An SOI substrate includes a semiconductor base; a semiconductor layer formed over the semiconductor base; and a buried insulating film which is disposed between the semiconductor base and the semiconductor layer, so as to electrically isolate the semiconductor layer from the semiconductor base, where the buried insulating film contains a nitride film.
US09136382B2
A method for fabricating a native device is presented. The method includes forming a gate structure over a substrate starting at an outer edge of an inner marker region, where the gate structure extends in a longitudinal direction, and performing MDD implants, where each implant is performed using a different orientation with respect to the gate structure, performing pocket implants, where each implant is performed using a different orientation with respect to the gate structure, and concentrations of the pocket implants vary based upon the orientations. A transistor fabricated as a native device, is presented, which includes an inner marker region, an active outer region which surrounds the inner marker region, a gate structure coupled to the inner marker region, and first and second source/drain implants located within the active outer region and interposed between the first source/drain implant and the second source/drain implant.
US09136372B2
In a silicon carbide semiconductor device, a plurality of trenches has a longitudinal direction in one direction and is arranged in a stripe pattern. Each of the trenches has first and second sidewalls extending in the longitudinal direction. The first sidewall is at a first acute angle to one of a (11-20) plane and a (1-100) plane, the second sidewall is at a second acute angle to the one of the (11-20) plane and the (1-100) plane, and the first acute angle is smaller than the second acute angle. A first conductivity type region is in contact with only the first sidewall in the first and second sidewalls of each of the trenches, and a current path is formed on only the first sidewall in the first and second sidewalls.
US09136366B2
An integrated circuit includes a silicon substrate, a ground plane above the substrate, a buried insulator layer above the ground plane, a silicon layer above the buried insulator layer and separated from the ground plane by the buried insulator layer, and an FDSOI transistor. The transistor has a channel adapted for being formed in the silicon layer, a source and drain in and/or on the silicon layer, and a gate covering an upper face of the channel and having a lateral portion covering a lateral face of the channel and above the ground plane. A distance between the lateral portion and the ground plane is not more than three nanometers and at least five times less than a thickness of the buried insulator layer between the ground plane and the silicon layer. The ground plane is separated from the gate by the buried insulator layer.
US09136362B2
A semiconductor device with a lateral element includes a semiconductor substrate, first and second electrodes on the substrate, and a resistive field plate extending from the first electrode to the second electrode. The lateral element passes a current between the first and second electrodes. A voltage applied to the second electrode is less than a voltage applied to the first electrode. The resistive field plate has a first end portion and a second end portion opposite to the first end portion. The second end portion is located closer to the second electrode than the first end portion. An impurity concentration in the second end portion is equal to or greater than 1×1018 cm−3.
US09136355B2
Embodiments described herein provide amorphous silicon thin-film transistors (a-Si TFTs) and methods for forming a-Si TFTs. A substrate is provided. A gate electrode is formed above the substrate. An a-Si channel layer is formed above the gate electrode. A contact layer is formed above the a-Si channel layer. The contact layer includes titanium, zinc, arsenic, or a combination thereof. A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed above the contact layer.
US09136354B2
The present invention provides methods for manufacturing a passivation layer and a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate. The method for manufacturing the passivation layer comprises the following steps: placing a substrate in a vacuum process chamber; providing an ammonia gas and a nitrogen gas into the vacuum process chamber; forming plasma and evaporating water vapor; and forming the passivation layer on the substrate. The method for manufacturing the passivation layer can be applicable to the method for manufacturing the TFT array substrate. The present invention can enhance the quality of the passivation layer.
US09136353B2
A method of forming polysilicon, a thin film transistor (TFT) using the polysilicon, and a method of fabricating the TFT are disclosed. The method of forming the polysilicon comprises: forming an insulating layer on a substrate; forming a first electrode and a second electrode on the insulating layer; forming at least one heater layer on the insulating layer so as to connect the first electrode and the second electrode; forming an amorphous material layer containing silicon on the heater layer(s); forming a through-hole under the heater layer(s) by etching the insulating layer; and crystallizing the amorphous material layer into a polysilicon layer by applying a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode so as to heat the heater layer(s).
US09136352B2
A screen oxide film is formed on an n− drift layer (2) that is disposed on an anterior side of an n-type low-resistance layer (1), and a nitride film is formed on the screen oxide film. The nitride film is photo-etched using a first mask and thereby, a nitride shielding film (61) is formed. N-type impurity ions at a concentration higher than that of the n-drift layer are implanted through the nitride shielding film (61) from an anterior side of a semiconductor substrate and are thermally diffused and thereby, an n counter layer (7) is formed. The screen oxide film is removed. A gate oxide film (3a) is formed. A gate electrode (9) is formed on the gate oxide film (3a). P-type impurity ions are implanted from the anterior side of the semiconductor substrate using the gate electrode (9) and the nitride shielding film (61) as a mask and thereby, p− well regions (10) are formed. N-type impurity ions are implanted from the anterior side of the semiconductor substrate using the gate electrode (9) and the nitride shielding film (61) as a mask and thereby, n source regions (11) are formed.
US09136351B2
A manufacturing method of an electric power semiconductor device includes following processes. A plurality of first second conductivity type impurity implantation layers are formed in a surface of a second semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type. A first trench is formed between a first non-implantation region and one of the plurality of first second conductivity type impurity implantation layers. An epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type is formed and covers the plurality of first second conductivity type impurity implantation layers. A plurality of second second conductivity type impurity implantation layers are formed in a surface of the epitaxial layer. A second trench is formed between a second non-implantation region and one of the plurality of second second conductivity type impurity implantation layers. A third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type is formed and covers the plurality of second second conductivity type impurity implantation layers.
US09136349B2
A structure and method for fabricating a spacer structure for semiconductor devices, such as a multi-gate structure, is provided. The dummy gate structure is formed by depositing a dielectric layer, forming a mask over the dielectric layer, and patterning the dielectric layer. The mask is formed to have a tapered edge. In an embodiment, the tapered edge is formed in a post-patterning process, such as a baking process. In another embodiment, a relatively thick mask layer is utilized such that during patterning a tapered results. The profile of the tapered mask is transferred to the dielectric layer, thereby providing a tapered edge on the dielectric layer.
US09136346B2
A semiconductor device that can more efficiently absorb a stored hole includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, a control electrode, and a third electrode. The second semiconductor layer is provided on the first semiconductor layer and has a band gap narrower than that of the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer includes a first portion and a second portion which is provided together with the first portion and contains an activated acceptor. The third semiconductor layer is provided on the first portion and has a band gap wider than or equal to the band gap of the second semiconductor layer. The first and the second electrodes are provided on the third semiconductor layer. The control electrode is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The third electrode is provided on the second portion.
US09136341B2
A field effect transistor having at least one structure configured to redistribute and/or reduce an electric field from gate finger ends is disclosed. Embodiments of the field effect transistor include a substrate, an active region disposed on the substrate, at least one source finger in contact with the active region, at least one drain finger in contact with the active region, and at least one gate finger in rectifying contact with the active region. One embodiment has at least one end of the at least one gate finger extending outside of the active region. Another embodiment includes at least one source field plate integral with the at least one source finger. The at least one source field plate extends over the at least one gate finger that includes a portion outside of the active region. Either embodiment can also include a sloped gate foot to further improve high voltage operation.
US09136340B2
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first doped region and a second doped region, and a gate stack formed on the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a main spacer layer formed on a sidewall of the gate stack. The semiconductor device further includes a protection layer formed between the main spacer layer and the semiconductor substrate, and the protection layer is doped with a quadrivalent element. In addition, the semiconductor device includes an insulating layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and the gate stack, and a contact formed in the insulating layer. The contact has a first portion contacting the first doped region and has a second portion contacting the second doped region. The first region extends deeper into the semiconductor substrate than the second portion.
US09136338B2
Disclosed is a sputtering target having a good appearance, which is free from white spots on the surface. The sputtering target is characterized by being composed of an oxide sintered body containing two or more kinds of homologous crystal structures.
US09136336B2
Inverter logic devices include a gate oxide on a back substrate, a first graphene layer and a second graphene layer separated from each other on the gate oxide, a first electrode layer and a first semiconductor layer separated from each other on the first graphene layer, a second electrode layer and a second semiconductor layer separated from each other on the second graphene layer, and an output electrode on the first and second semiconductor layers and configured to output an output signal. The first semiconductor layer is doped with a different type of impurities selected from n-type impurities and p-type impurities than the second semiconductor layer.
US09136331B2
Some embodiments include semiconductor constructions having semiconductor material patterned into two mesas spaced from one another by at least one dummy projection. The dummy projection has a width along a cross-section of X and the mesas have widths along the cross-section of at least 3X. Some embodiments include semiconductor constructions having a memory array region and a peripheral region adjacent the memory array region. Semiconductor material within the peripheral region is patterned into two relatively wide mesas spaced from one another by at least one relatively narrow projection. The relatively narrow projection has a width along a cross-section of X and the relatively wide mesas have widths along the cross-section of at least 3X.
US09136329B2
Leakage current can be substantially reduced by the formation of a seal dielectric in place of the conventional junction between source/drain region(s) and the substrate material. Trenches are formed in the substrate and lined with a seal dielectric prior to filling the trenches with semiconductor material. Preferably, the trenches are overfilled and a CMP process planarizes the overfill material. An epitaxial layer can be grown atop the trenches after planarization, if desired.
US09136322B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer made of a wide bandgap semiconductor and including a gate trench; a gate insulating film formed on the gate trench; and a gate electrode embedded in the gate trench to be opposed to the semiconductor layer through the gate insulating film. The semiconductor layer includes a first conductivity type source region; a second conductivity type body region; a first conductivity type drift region; a second conductivity type first breakdown voltage holding region; a source trench passing through the first conductivity type source region and the second conductivity type body region from the front surface and reaching a drain region; and a second conductivity type second breakdown voltage region selectively formed on an edge portion of the source trench where the sidewall and the bottom wall thereof intersect with each other in a parallel region of the source trench.
US09136320B2
A field effect transistor includes a semiconductor substrate having a protrusion with at least one inclined surface, a gate insulator disposed at least on a portion of the inclined surface, and a gate conductor disposed on the gate insulator, wherein the semiconductor substrate comprises doped regions sandwiching a channel region, wherein the at least one inclined surface has a first crystal orientation in the channel region, and the inclined surface has an included angle to a vertical plane with a second crystal orientation. The hole mobility and the electron mobility are substantially the same in the channel region having a crystalline orientation off from the (110) crystal orientation.
US09136307B2
Memory cells, arrays of memory cells, and methods of forming the same with sealing material on sidewalls thereof are disclosed herein. One example of forming a memory cell includes forming a stack of materials, forming a trench to a first depth in the stack of materials such that a portion of at least one of the active storage element material and the active select device material is exposed on sidewalls of the trench. A sealing material is formed on the exposed portion of the at least one of the active storage element material and the active select device material and the trench is deepened such that a portion of the other of the at least one of the active storage element material and the active select device material is exposed on the sidewalls of the trench.
US09136304B2
A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging element and a logic element. The imaging element includes a first semiconductor substrate, a first wiring layer, and a first metal layer, in which a pixel region which is a light sensing surface is formed. The logic element includes a second semiconductor substrate, a second wiring layer, and a second metal layer, in which a signal processing circuit that processes a pixel signal obtained at the pixel region is formed. The logic element is laminated to the imaging element so that the first metal layer and the second metal layer are bonded to each other, and the first metal layer and the second metal layer are formed on a region excluding a region in which a penetrating electrode layer penetrating a bonding surface of the imaging element and the logic element is formed.
US09136293B2
Methods and apparatus for integrating a CMOS image sensor and an image signal processor (ISP) together using an interposer to form a system in package device module are disclosed. The device module may comprise an interposer with a substrate. An interposer contact is formed within the substrate. A sensor device may be bonded to a surface of the interposer, wherein a sensor contact is bonded to a first end of the interposer contact. An ISP may be connected to the interposer, by bonding an ISP contact in the ISP to a second end of the interposer contact. An underfill layer may fill a gap between the interposer and the ISP. A printed circuit board (PCB) may further be connected to the interposer by way of a solder ball connected to another interposer contact. A thermal interface material may be in contact with the ISP and the PCB.
US09136287B2
Adverse effects of variation in threshold voltage are reduced. In a semiconductor device, electric charge is accumulated in a capacitor provided between a gate and a source of a transistor, and then, the electric charge accumulated in the capacitor is discharged; thus, the threshold voltage of the transistor is obtained. After that, current flows to a load. In the semiconductor device, the potential of one terminal of the capacitor is set higher than the potential of a source line, and the potential of the source line is set lower than the potential of a power supply line and the cathode side potential of the load.
US09136286B2
It is an object to provide a display panel and an electronic book which are manufactured with high yield and have high reliability. A display panel is provided which includes, a flexible display portion in which a scan line and a signal line intersect with each other over a substrate, a signal line driver circuit for outputting a first signal to the signal line adjacent to a first side of the flexible display portion over the substrate, and a scan line driver circuit for outputting a second signal to the scan line adjacent to a second side of the flexible display portion. In the display panel, the mechanical strength of a portion provided with the signal line driver circuit or the scan line driver circuit is improved as compared to the mechanical strength of other than the portion.
US09136277B2
A three dimensional stacked semiconductor structure comprises a stack including plural oxide layers and conductive layers arranged alternately, at least a contact hole formed vertically to the oxide layers and the conductive layers, and extending to one of the conductive layers, an insulator formed at the sidewall of the contact hole, a conductor formed in the contact hole and connecting the corresponding conductive layer, and the corresponding conductive layer comprises a silicide. The silicide could be formed at edges or an entire body of the corresponding conductive layer. Besides the silicide, the corresponding conductive layer could, partially or completely, further comprise a conductive material connected to the conductor. The corresponding conductive layer which the contact hole extends to has higher conductivity than other conductive layers. Also, the 3D stacked semiconductor structure could be applied to a fan-out region of a 3D flash memory.
US09136275B2
A semiconductor device includes at least one channel layer, insulating layers stacked on top of one another while surrounding the at least one channel layer, first grooves and second grooves alternately interposed between the insulating layers, wherein the first groves have a greater width than the second grooves having a second width, and conductive layers formed in the first grooves.
US09136269B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate divided into a cell region and a peripheral circuit region defined in a first direction, wherein the peripheral circuit region is divided into a first region and a second region defined in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction; gate lines formed over the semiconductor substrate in the cell region and arranged in the second direction; and a capacitor including lower electrodes over the semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer and an upper electrode, wherein the lower electrodes in the first and second regions, separated from each other in the first direction and coupled to each other in the first region, the dielectric layer is formed along surfaces of the lower electrodes in the second region, and the upper electrode is formed over the dielectric layer.
US09136268B2
A semiconductor device includes: a second transistor having a second conductive type formed on a first well region having a first conductive type; a first transistor having a first conductive type formed on a second well region having a second conductive type; a first well guard ring having the first conductive type, the first well guard ring including at least a first portion formed between the first transistor and the second transistor; a second well guard ring having the first conductive type, the second well guard ring including at least a first portion formed between the first transistor and the second transistor; and a first capacitor formed on at least one of the first well region and the second well region, and located between the first portion of the first well guard ring and the first portion of the second well guard ring.
US09136262B2
A semiconductor device includes a transistor having a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode and first and second protection circuits each having one end commonly connected to the gate electrode and the other end connected to the first and second electrodes, respectively. The first and second protection circuits are formed in first and second polysilicon layers, respectively, formed separately on a single field insulating film.
US09136261B2
An Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) protection using at least one I/O pad with at least one mesh structure of diodes provided on a semiconductor body is disclosed. The mesh structure has a plurality of cells. At least one cell can have a first type of implant surrounded by at least one cell with a second type of implant in at least one side of the cell, and at least cell can have a second type of implant surrounded by at least one cell with a first type of implant in at least one side of the cell. The two types of implant regions can be separated with a gap. A silicide block layer (SBL) can cover the gap and overlap into the both implant regions to construct P/N junctions on the polysilicon or active-region body on an insulated substrate. Alternatively, the two types of implant regions can be isolated by LOCOS, STI, dummy gate, or SBL on silicon substrate. The regions with the first and the second type of implants can be coupled to serve as the first and second terminal of a diode, respectively. The mesh structure can have a first terminal coupled to the I/O pad and a first terminal coupled to a first supply voltage.
US09136259B2
A method is provided for forming a die stack. The method includes forming a plurality of through-wafer vias and a first plurality of alignment features in a first die. A second plurality of alignment features is formed in a second die, and the first die is stacked on the second die such that the first plurality of alignment features engage the second plurality of alignment features. A method of manufacturing a die stack is also provided that includes forming a plurality of through-wafer vias on a first die, forming a plurality of recesses on a first die, and forming a plurality of protrusions on a second die. A die stack and a system are also provided.
US09136254B2
Microelectronic components and methods forming such microelectronic components are disclosed herein. The microelectronic components may include a plurality of electrically conductive vias in the form of wire bonds extending from a bonding surface of a substrate, such as surfaces of electrically conductive elements at a surface of the substrate.
US09136250B2
A through silicon via (TSV) repair circuit is provided. The TSV repair circuit includes at least two transmission control switches and at least two transmission path modules. Two transmission control switches transmit an input signal of a first chip or a second chip to one of two terminals in each of the transmission path modules according to a switch signal. Each transmission path module includes at least two data path circuits and corresponding TSVs. Each data path circuit includes an input driving circuit, a short-circuit detection circuit and a leakage current cancellation circuit. The short-circuit detection circuit detects whether to detect whether short-circuit on the TSV and a silicon substrate is present and generate a short-circuit detection output signal. The leakage current cancellation circuit to avoid a leakage current generated by a first level voltage to flow into the silicon substrate according to the short-circuit detection output signal.
US09136246B2
An integrated chip package structure and method of manufacturing the same is by adhering dies on a silicon substrate and forming a thin-film circuit layer on top of the dies and the silicon substrate. Wherein the thin-film circuit layer has an external circuitry, which is electrically connected to the metal pads of the dies, that extends to a region outside the active surface of the dies for fanning out the metal pads of the dies. Furthermore, a plurality of active devices and an internal circuitry is located on the active surface of the dies. Signal for the active devices are transmitted through the internal circuitry to the external circuitry and from the external circuitry through the internal circuitry back to other active devices. Moreover, the chip package structure allows multiple dies with different functions to be packaged into an integrated package and electrically connecting the dies by the external circuitry.
US09136245B2
An electronic device comprising a bond pad on a substrate and a wire bonded to the bond pad. The device further comprises an intermetallic compound interface located between the bond pad and the wire and a silicon nitride or silicon carbonyl layer covering the intermetallic compound interface.
US09136240B2
A method of ultrasonically bonding semiconductor elements includes the steps of: (a) aligning surfaces of a plurality of first conductive structures of a first semiconductor element to respective surfaces of a plurality of second conductive structures of a second semiconductor element, wherein the surfaces of each of the plurality of first conductive structures and the plurality of second conductive structures include aluminum; and (b) ultrasonically bonding ones of the first conductive structures to respective ones of the second conductive structures.
US09136238B2
A low-noise flip-chip package, comprising: a carrier substrate having first and second opposing main faces; and a flip-chip substrate connected in a face-down manner onto the first main face of the carrier substrate via a connection array, wherein: the flip-chip substrate comprises at least first and second circuitry portions spaced apart from one another; the flip-chip substrate comprises a substrate-contact boundary located between the first and second circuitry portions; and each of the first circuitry portion, the second circuitry portion and the substrate-contact boundary has its own separate signal-reference connection extending via a respective connection of the connection array through the carrier substrate to a respective electrical contact at the second main face of the carrier substrate for connection to a common signal-reference element in an external circuit.
US09136234B2
When forming sophisticated semiconductor devices including metal pillars arranged on contact pads, which may comprise aluminum, device performance and reliability may be improved by avoiding exposure of the contact pad material to the ambient atmosphere, in particular during and between dicing and packaging processes. To this end, the contact pad material may be covered by a protection layer or may be protected by the metal pillars itself, thereby concurrently improving mechanical stress distribution in the device.
US09136231B2
A carrier-free land grid array (LGA) Integrated Circuit (IC) chip package and a preparation method thereof are provided. The IC chip package includes: an inner pin, an IC chip, a pad, a bonding wire, and a mold cap. The inner pin is designed to be a multi-row matrix form at a front side of the package, and is designed to be an exposed multi-row approximate square-shaped circular gold-plated contacts at a back side; the IC chip is provided on the inner pin, the inner pin is adhered to the IC chip with an adhesive film sheet, the pad on the IC chip is connected to the inner pin by the bonding wire, and the mold cap encircles the adhesive film sheet, the IC chip, the bonding wire, and edges of the inner pin, so as to form a whole circuit. The present invention adopts approximate square-shaped spherical array contacts, thereby having a simple and flexible structure, and achieving a desirable heat-dissipation effect. A cooper lead frame (L/F) has a high yield, and reduces the material cost. The L/F is used to replace a ceramic substrate, PCB substrate, or BT substrate, thereby saving the complicated layout design, shortening the designing and manufacturing cycle, accelerating the trial production course, and enabling the product to be early listed to obtain market opportunities.
US09136228B2
An ESD protection device includes a semiconductor substrate including input/output electrodes and a rewiring layer provided on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. An ESD protection circuit is provided on or in an outer layer of the semiconductor substrate, and the input/output electrodes are connected to the ESD protection circuit. The rewiring layer includes interlayer wiring lines, in-plane wiring lines, and post electrodes. First ends of the interlayer wiring lines disposed in the thickness direction are connected to the input/output electrodes disposed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and second ends of the interlayer wiring lines are connected to first ends of the in-plane wiring lines routed in plan view. Prismatic post electrodes are provided between second ends of the in-plane wiring lines and terminal electrodes.
US09136225B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes the steps of passing a control terminal through an opening of a resin case to partially expose the control terminal and covering a patterned insulating substrate with the resin case; inserting a resin block in the opening of the resin case; fitting a convex step portion formed on a side surface of the resin block into a valley formed between two projections of the control terminal; fitting a projection formed on the side surface of the resin block into a concave portion formed on a sidewall of the opening of the resin case; and fitting a projection formed on a bottom surface of the resin block into a concave portion formed in a beam portion at a bottom portion of the opening of the resin case to position and fix the control terminal.
US09136219B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor chip having a surface provided with first electrodes; and an expanded semiconductor chip including a second semiconductor chip and an expanded portion extending outward from at least one side surface of the second semiconductor chip. The expanded semiconductor chip has a surface provided with second electrodes. The surface of the first semiconductor chip provided with the first electrodes faces the surface of the expanded semiconductor chip provided with the second electrodes so that the first electrodes are connected to the second electrodes. Each one of the second electrodes that is connected to an associated one of the first electrodes is located only on the expanded portion.
US09136213B2
A system and method of manufacturing a system are disclosed. An embodiment of the system includes a first packaged component comprising a first component and a first redistribution layer (RDL) disposed on a first main surface of the first packaged component, wherein the first RDL includes first pads. The system further includes a second packaged component having a second component disposed at a first main surface of the second packaged component, the first main surface having second pads and a connection layer between the first packaged component and the second packaged component, wherein the connection layer connects a first plurality of the first pads with the second pads.
US09136185B2
Methods and systems for evaluation of wafers are disclosed. One example method includes illuminating a multi-crystalline wafer according to a plurality of lighting parameters, capturing a plurality of images of the multi-crystalline wafer, stacking and projecting the plurality of images to generate a composite image, analyzing the composite image to identify one or more grains of the multi-crystalline wafer, and generating a report based on the analysis of the composite image. The multi-crystalline wafer is illuminated according to a different one of the plurality of lighting parameters in at least two of the plurality of images.
US09136178B2
Systems and methods of fabricating a FinFET in large scale integrated circuit are disclosed. One illustrative method relates to a dummy gate process, wherein the fin structure is only formed in the gate electrode region by performing a photolithography process and an etching of a first dummy gate on a flat STI surface using chemical mechanical polishing, forming drain and source regions, depositing a medium dielectric layer, polishing the medium dielectric layer till the top of the first dummy gate is exposed through the chemical mechanical polishing process again, removing the dummy gate material via a dry etching and a wet etching, and continuously etching the STI dielectric layer with the hard mask formed by the medium dielectric layer, thereafter performing the deposition of real gate dielectric and gate electrode material to complete the device structure.
US09136175B2
Methods are provided for fabricating integrated circuits. One method includes etching a plurality of trenches into a silicon substrate and filling the trenches with an insulating material to delineate a plurality of spaced apart silicon fins. A layer of undoped silicon is epitaxially grown to form an upper, undoped region of the fins. Dummy gate structures are formed overlying and transverse to the plurality of fins and a back fill material fills between the dummy gate structures. The dummy gate structures are removed to expose a portion of the fins and a high-k dielectric material and a work function determining gate electrode material are deposited overlying the portion of the fins. The back fill material is removed to expose a second portion and metal silicide contacts are formed on the second portion. Conductive contacts are then formed to the work function determining material and to the metal silicide.
US09136161B2
Micro pick up arrays for transferring micro devices from a carrier substrate are disclosed. In an embodiment, a micro pick up array includes a compliant contact for delivering an operating voltage from a voltage source to an array of electrostatic transfer heads. In an embodiment, the compliant contact is moveable relative to a base substrate of the micro pick up array.
US09136154B2
A substrate-less composite power semiconductor device may be fabricated from a vertical conductive power semiconductor device wafer that includes a top metal layer located on a top surface of the wafer by a) forming solder bumps on top of the top metal layer; b) forming wafer level molding around the solder bumps such that the solder bumps are exposed through a top of the wafer level molding; c) grinding a back side of the device wafer to reduce a total thickness of a semiconductor material portion of the device wafer to a final thickness; and d) forming a back metal on a back surface of the wafer.
US09136151B2
An actuator comprising a first part and a second part, the first part being configured to move relative to the second part, wherein a labyrinth seal is provided between the first part and the second part, the labyrinth seal being configured to restrict the flow of gas from a first side of the labyrinth seal to a second side of the labyrinth seal, wherein one or more inlets and one or more outlets are provided within the labyrinth seal, the one or more inlets being configured to provide gas to a location within the labyrinth seal and the one or more outlets being configured to remove at least part of the gas from a location within the labyrinth seal.
US09136141B2
A cap film which can prevent diffusion of hydrogen from the embrittled region and supply hydrogen to a region between the embrittled region and the surface of the semiconductor substrate is formed over the semiconductor substrate, and the semiconductor layer is transferred from the semiconductor substrate to the base substrate. In particular, the amount of hydrogen contained in the cap film formed over the semiconductor substrate is preferably greater than or equal to the irradiation amount of hydrogen ions.
US09136131B2
A semiconductor structure includes a source region, a drain region, a channel region and a gate region over a bulk silicon substrate. The gate region further includes a dielectric layer and one or more work function layers disposed over the dielectric layer. A first filler material, such as a flowable oxide is provided over the source region and the drain region. A second filler material, such as an organic material, is provided within the gate region. The first filler material and the second filler material are selectively removed to create, source, drain and gate openings. The gate, source and drain openings are filled simultaneously with a metal, such as tungsten, to create a metal gate structure, source contact and drain contact.
US09136126B2
A surface region of a semiconductor material on a surface of a semiconductor device is doped during its manufacture, by coating the surface region of the semiconductor material with a dielectric material surface layer and locally heating the surface of the semiconductor material in an area to be doped to locally melt the semiconductor material with the melting being performed in the presence of a dopant source. The heating is performed in a controlled manner such that a region of the surface of the semiconductor material in the area to be doped is maintained in a molten state without refreezing for a period of time greater than one microsecond and the dopant from the dopant source is absorbed into the molten semiconductor. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor material structure in which a junction is formed and may incorporate a multi-layer anti-reflection coating. The anti-reflection coating is located on a light receiving surface of the semiconductor material structure and comprises a thin layer of thermal expansion mismatch correction material having a thermal expansion coefficient less than or equal to that of the semiconductor material, to provide thermal expansion coefficient mismatch correction. An anti-reflection layer is provided having a refractive index and thickness selected to match the semiconductor material structure so as to give good overall antireflection properties to the solar cell.
US09136116B2
A semiconductor device includes a III-nitride substrate having a first conductivity type and a first electrode electrically coupled to the III-nitride substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a III-nitride material having a second conductivity type coupled to the III-nitride substrate at a regrowth interface and a p-n junction disposed between the III-nitride substrate and the regrowth interface.
US09136114B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided, including: forming an oxynitride film having a specific film thickness on a substrate by performing multiple numbers of times a cycle of: forming a specific element-containing layer on the substrate by supplying a source gas containing a specific element into a processing vessel in which the substrate is housed; changing the specific element-containing layer to a nitride layer by supplying a nitrogen-containing gas into the processing vessel; and changing the nitride layer to an oxynitride layer by supplying an oxygen-containing gas and an inert gas into the processing vessel, with this sequence as one cycle, wherein a composition ratio of the oxynitride film having the specific film thickness is controlled by controlling a partial pressure of the oxygen-containing gas in the processing vessel, in changing the nitride layer to the oxynitride layer.
US09136113B2
A process for avoiding formation of an Si—SiO2—H2 environment during a dissolution treatment of a semiconductor-on-insulator structure that includes a carrier substrate, an oxide layer, a thin layer of a semiconductor material and a peripheral ring in which the oxide layer is exposed. This process includes encapsulating at least the exposed oxide layer of the peripheral ring with semiconductor material by performing a creep thermal treatment; and performing an oxide dissolution treatment to reduce part of the thickness of the oxide layer. In this process, the semiconductor material that encapsulates the oxide layer has a thickness before the oxide dissolution that is at least twice that of the oxide that is to be dissolved, thus avoiding formation of an Si—SiO2—H2 environment on the peripheral ring where the oxide layer would otherwise be exposed.
US09136106B2
A method of forming a target pattern includes forming a plurality of lines over a substrate with a first mask and forming a first spacer layer over the substrate, over the plurality of lines, and onto sidewalls of the plurality of lines. The plurality of lines is removed, thereby providing a patterned first spacer layer over the substrate. The method further includes forming a second spacer layer over the substrate, over the patterned first spacer layer, and onto sidewalls of the patterned first spacer layer, and forming a patterned material layer over the second spacer layer with a second mask. Whereby, the patterned material layer and the second spacer layer collectively define a plurality of trenches.
US09136105B2
The wafer bevel etching apparatus of the present invention includes a wafer-protecting mask to cover parts of a wafer. A central region and a wafer bevel region surrounding the central region are defined on the wafer. The wafer-protecting mask includes a center sheltering region and at least one wafer bevel sheltering region. The center sheltering region can completely shelter the central region of the wafer, and the wafer bevel sheltering region extends from the outside edge of the center sheltering region, shelters parts of the wafer bevel region, and exposes the other parts of the wafer bevel region.
US09136104B2
A silicon wafer after being cleaned by using a cleaning liquid is rinsed by using carbonic water. According to such a silicon wafer cleaning method, generation of static due to a rinsing treatment is not caused, so that an electrostatic breakdown is not caused, adhesion of dirt to a cleaned silicon wafer surface due to the static is not caused, adhesion of metal impurities can be prevented in the rinsing treatment of the silicon wafer and, while giving consideration to the cost, furthermore, a rinsing treatment using a clean rinsing liquid free from causing any residue can be performed.
US09136100B2
A time of flight analyzer that comprises a pulsed ion source; a non-linear ion mirror having a turn-around point; and a detector. The pulsed ion source is configured to produce an ion pulse travelling along an ion flight axis, the ion pulse comprising an ion group consisting of ions of a single m/z value, the ion group having a lateral spread. The non-linear ion mirror is configured to reflect the ion group, at the turn-around point, along the ion flight axis towards the detector, the passage of the ion group through the non-linear ion mirror causing a spatial spread of the ion group. The time of flight mass analyzer has at least one lens positioned between the ion source and the ion mirror, wherein the or each lens is configured to reduce said lateral spread so as to provide a local minimum of lateral spread within the ion mirror.
US09136099B2
A structured substrate is described which is suitable for forming and hosting a crystal array, as well as associated methods for making and using such a structured substrate. The structured substrate is made by injection molding and has on one side a combination of macro- and micro-structured features. Each macro-structured feature comprises an edge that forms a perimeter around an enclosed area containing a large number of the micro-structured features. When a droplet of a solution containing molecules of interest and a solvent is deposited onto one of the enclosed areas such that it extends somewhat beyond the perimeter, the droplet slowly dries and shrinks through evaporation of the solvent, during which the edge acts to seed crystallization of the molecules, and the micro-structured features act to direct crystal growth from the seed into the enclosed area. The crystal thus forms over the whole of the enclosed area in a shape that conforms to the perimeter. Crystals of a desired size and shape can therefore be formed.
US09136094B2
A method of operating a plasma processing device includes outputting a first RF power having a first frequency and a first duty ratio, and outputting a second RF power having a second frequency higher than the first frequency and a second duty ratio smaller than the first duty ratio. The outputting of the first RF power and the outputting of the second RF power are synchronized with each other.
US09136092B2
The present disclosure provides one embodiment of an integrated circuit (IC) method. The method includes receiving an IC design layout having a main feature; performing an optical proximity correction (OPC) process to the design layout; and thereafter, performing a jog reduction process to the design layout such that jog features of the design layout are reduced.
US09136085B2
In one exemplary embodiment, a shock-resistant night vision assembly is configured to detect a high-acceleration event, for example, resulting from a round or burst of high-caliber rifle fire. Upon detecting the event, a voltage such as a photocathode voltage is forced to an inactive or protective level and held there for approximately 50 ms, giving time for mechanical excursions of the microchannel plate to settle out. Damage from physical impact and electrostatic discharge may thus be mitigated.
US09136078B1
An electromechanical switching system includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion. The first conductive portion includes a conductive stationary end and a conductive floating end, connected by a shape memory alloy (SMA). When an input stimulus current is applied to the SMA, changes in the SMA urge motion of the conductive floating end of the first conductive portion toward the second conductive portion, which in turn causes a change in the state of the electromechanical switching system. The input stimulus current may be calculated to satisfy a given response time requirement.
US09136074B2
A residual current circuit breaker having a core-balance current transformer for detecting a residual current, wherein a secondary winding is arranged on a core of the core-balance element transformer, wherein the residual current circuit breaker has an AC measurement arrangement and a DC measurement arrangement, wherein the AC and DC measurement arrangements are designed to operate simultaneously and in parallel.
US09136057B2
A collective component has a first region that intersects with a conductive film for external terminal electrodes in a break line in which break leading holes are arranged and a second region that does not intersect with the conductive film for external terminal electrodes in the break line. The plurality of break leading holes includes at least one extending break leading hole located so as to extend over the first region and the second region.
US09136046B2
Impurities are reduced in an oxide superconducting layer and in an interface between the oxide superconducting layer and an intermediate layer. A superconducting wire rod 1 has a structure including a substrate (10), an intermediate layer (20) formed on the substrate (10), a reaction suppressing layer (28) formed on the intermediate layer (20) and mainly containing polycrystalline SrLaFeO4+δ1 or CaLaFeO4+δ2, in which the δ1 and the δ2 each represent an amount of non-stoichiometric oxygen, and an oxide superconducting layer (30) formed on the reaction suppressing layer (28) and mainly containing an oxide superconductor.
US09136043B2
A cable that has a cable core which includes a plurality of pairs of insulated conductors, a barrier layer surrounding at least one pair of the insulated conductors, and at least one shielding layer that is provided between the plurality of pairs of insulated conductors. The barrier layer may be non-conductive and the shielding layer may be conductive.
US09136034B2
The present disclosure relates to a polymer electrolyte membrane having a construction wherein an ionomer is charged in pores of a nanoweb having a high melting point, being insoluble in an organic solvent and having excellent pore characteristics, under optimum conditions. Therefore, an overall thickness of the electrolyte membrane may be reduced, thereby attaining advantages such as decrease in ohmic loss, reduction of material costs, excellent heat resistance, low thickness expansion rate which in turn prevents proton conductivity from being deteriorated over a long term. The polymer electrolyte membrane of the present invention comprises a porous nanoweb having a melting point of 300□ or more and being insoluble in an organic solvent of NMP, DMF, DMA, or DMSO at room temperature; and an ionomer which is charged in pores of the porous nanoweb and contains a hydrocarbon material soluble in the organic solvent at room temperature.
US09136027B2
A method of drying high-level radioactive wastes and device thereof contains a suspension mechanism for hanging a manual elevating mechanism, and a shielding cover. The manual elevating mechanism couples with a basket for accommodating wastes by using a hanging rope, and the shielding cover is fixed below the suspension mechanism and in a moving path of the basket. The basket is moved to a storage tank containing water in which radioactive wastes are stored, and the radioactive wastes are pumped into the basket by means of a pump. The basket is then lifted above a water surface of the storage tank and received in the shielding cover, and then the shielding cover is moved into a water holder so as to drain waters in the basket. The basket is further moved onto a heating seat to be heated and a vacuum equipment is started to dry the radioactive wastes.
US09136026B2
A heating laser beam is emitted to a cracked portion to remove moisture from the cracked portion, and subsequently, a welding laser beam is emitted to the cracked portion to heat and melt the cracked portion. The heating laser beam and the welding laser beam are emitted to an entire surface of the cylindrical body inside the reactor such as a stub tube penetrating through and fixed to a reactor bottom portion and a crack of the welded portion between the cylindrical body and the reactor bottom portion to thereby prevent a new crack from occurring and reactor water from leaking.
US09136021B2
Self-repair logic for stacked memory architecture. An embodiment of a memory device includes a memory stack having one or more memory die elements, including a first memory die element, and a system element coupled with the memory stack. The first memory die element includes multiple through silicon vias (TSVs), the TSVs including data TSVs and one or more spare TSVs, and self-repair logic to repair operation of a defective TSV of the plurality of data TSVs, the repair of operation of the defective TSV including utilization of the one or more spare TSVs.
US09136003B1
A method includes, in a plurality of memory cells that share a common isolation layer and store in the common isolation layer quantities of electrical charge representative of data values, assigning a first group of the memory cells for data storage, and assigning a second group of the memory cells for protecting the electrical charge stored in the first group from retention drift. Data is stored in the memory cells of the first group. Protective quantities of the electrical charge that protect from the retention drift in the memory cells of the first group are stored in the memory cells of the second group.
US09136000B2
A semiconductor memory device includes an I/O circuit suitable for inputting and outputting data signals, and a control logic suitable for controlling the I/O circuit. The control logic includes a flip-flop suitable for operating in response to a dock signal, which is irrelevant to the data signals, and feed a first output signal back, a first pulse generation circuit suitable for generating a data output control pulse in response to a second output signal of the flip-flop which is an inverted signal of the first output signal, and a second circuit suitable for generating a strobe signal in response to the second output signal.
US09135992B2
Methods of forming and operating phase change memory devices include adjusting an activation energy barrier between a metastable phase and a stable phase of a phase change material in a memory cell. In some embodiments, the activation energy barrier is adjusted by applying stress to the phase change material in the memory cell. Memory devices include a phase change memory cell and a material, structure, or device for applying stress to the phase change material in the memory cell. In some embodiments, a piezoelectric device may be used to apply stress to the phase change material. In additional embodiments, a material having a thermal expansion coefficient greater than that of the phase change material may be positioned to apply stress to the phase change material.
US09135983B2
When a voltage monitoring circuit detects that a supplied voltage is in a state of being less than a certain voltage at a time of performing writing of data with respect to a memory cell of a memory core having a refresh function, a flag is set in a register circuit, an address at which the writing is performed is held, and the memory core is made to execute rewriting by a refresh operation with respect to the held address, in accordance with the flag set in the register circuit, thereby enabling an increase in speed of operation while securing a retention life of memory data, and enabling a reduction in power consumption without lowering a processing capability even if the supplied voltage is lowered.
US09135972B2
A method includes storing data in a memory that includes multiple analog memory cells. After storing the data, an interference caused by a first group of the analog memory cells to a second group of the analog memory cells is estimated. The data stored in the first group is reconstructed based on the estimated interference caused by the first group to the second group.
US09135966B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of memory arrays and a plurality of memory array control circuits. Each of the plurality of memory array control circuits includes a read/write control circuit for controlling a read/write operation for the memory array, and a selection circuit for selecting and activating the memory array based on a clock signal and an output signal from the read/write control circuit.
US09135965B2
A memory controller and method for interleaving volatile and non-volatile memory different latencies and page sizes are described wherein a single DDR3 memory controller communicates with a number of memory modules comprising of at least non-volatile memory, e.g., spin torque magnetic random access memory, integrated in a different Rank or Channel with a volatile memory, e.g., dynamic random access memory (DRAM).
US09135964B2
A differential sense amplifier for sensing data stored in a plurality of memory cells of a memory cell array, including a first CMOS inverter having an output connected to a first bit line (BL) and an input connected to a second bit line complementary to the first bit line and a second CMOS inverter having an output connected to the second bit line (/BL) and an input connected to the first bit line. Each CMOS inverter includes pull-up and pull-down transistors, wherein the sources of either of the pull-up transistors or the pull-down transistors are electrically coupled and connected to a pull-up voltage source or a pull-down voltage source without an intermediate transistor between the sources of the transistors and the voltage source.
US09135963B2
A line memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, a data line pair, a sense amplifier and an output unit. The plurality of memory cells are disposed adjacent to each other in a line. The data line pair is coupled to the memory cells to sequentially transfer memory data bits stored in the memory cells to the sense amplifier. The sense amplifier is configured to amplify the memory data bits that are sequentially transferred through the data line pair by corresponding delay times which are different from each other. The output unit samples an output of the sense amplifier to sequentially output retimed data bits of the memory data bits in response to a read clock signal. The read clock signal has a cyclic period which is less than a maximum delay time among the delay times.
US09135962B2
Methods, systems and devices are disclosed, such as an electronic device that includes a plurality of data locations and a delta-sigma modulator. In some embodiments, the delta-sigma modulator includes a preamplifier coupled to the data locations and a latch coupled to the preamplifier.
US09135958B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device combining transistors integrating on a same substrate transistors including an oxide semiconductor in their channel formation region and transistors including non-oxide semiconductor in their channel formation region. An application of the present invention is to realize substantially non-volatile semiconductor memories which do not require specific erasing operation and do not suffer from damages due to repeated writing operation. Furthermore, the semiconductor device is well adapted to store multivalued data. Manufacturing methods, application circuits and driving/reading methods are explained in details in the description.
US09135957B2
In one example, a mounting device includes a single piece screwless cradle for mounting an electronic storage device to a mounting plane. A method for tool-less installation of an electronic storage device is also provided. The method includes placing an electronic storage device into a single piece screwless cradle and pressing engagement features of the cradle into receptive features of the electronic storage device to join the cradle to the electronic storage device. The cradle and electronic storage device are slid over a mounting plane such the electronic storage device is disposed on a first surface of the mounting plane and an arm of the cradle is disposed on an opposite second surface of the mounting plane.
US09135956B2
A method and a computer program product for controlling a timing correlation establishing device to establish playback timing correlation between different contents to be playbacked are disclosed. The method includes displaying a main event block corresponding to a main video clip; displaying an auxiliary event block corresponding to an auxiliary video clip; displaying a time marker on a location of a first time point on a timeline according to an editor's manipulation to an input device; and when the time marker is positioned on the location of the first time point, if the editor perform a set of predetermined manipulations to the input device, utilizing a control circuit to establish a first trigger timing data for indicating that an auxiliary display device has to begin playbacking the auxiliary video clip when the main video clip playbacked by a main display device reaches the first time point.
US09135951B2
An audio data processing circuit comprises a memory and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to store audio data in the memory in at least one buffer, each buffer having a size. The processor is configured to detect a type of application providing the audio data and, based on the type of application detected, to change at least one of the size and number of buffers in which the processing circuit stores audio data.
US09135950B1
A plurality of time periods corresponding to times at which a predicted transition in a signal is expected to occur are determined. The signal has bi-phase modulation, and the predicted transition corresponds to a transition in the signal from a first state to a second state as part of the bi-phase modulation. A next transition in the signal from the first state to the second state is detected, and it is determined whether the detected next transition occurred during one of the plurality of time periods. In response to determining that the detected next transition occurred during one of the plurality of time periods, a timing of the detected next transition is used to adjust a clock used for recovering channel bits in the signal.
US09135941B2
Provided is an optical information recording medium employing an In-Groove recording system, and having a preferable recording characteristic with a high modulation degree and low jitter characteristics. The medium is comprised of a circular-disk shaped substrate 2 having a through hole at a center portion thereof and a helical guide groove 3 on one surface thereof; a reflective layer 4 formed on the guide groove 3 of the substrate 2; a recording layer 5 formed on the reflective layer 4 and composed of an organic material including a dye; a protection layer 6 provided on the recording layer 5; and a light-transmissive layer 7 formed on the protection layer 6. The recording layer 5 includes an organic dye which is an azo metal complex compound having a structure represented by (Chemical formula 1) and a functional group represented by (Chemical formula 2).
US09135935B1
System and methods are illustrated for customizing the HGA bonding skew angle of a TDMR slider including a plurality of readers to adjust reader alignment relative to a track location on disk media. Overlay error caused by manufacturing variations is compensated for by adjusting the skew angle of the slider when it is bonded to the suspension to form the HGA. Process operations for manufacturing a TMDR HDD include manufacturing a multiple reader, multiple layer TDMR slider, determining an overlay error in the slider, determining a slider bonding skew angle based on the determined overlay error and other parameters, and bonding the slider to a HDD suspension at the determined bonding skew angle.
US09135926B2
An apparatus and method of improving the quality of a speech codec are provided. In the method, a first energy of a signal decoded by a low-band codec is calculated, and a second energy of a signal decoded by a low-band enhancement mode is calculated. Then, when the first energy is less than a first threshold value or less than a product of the second energy and a second threshold value, a size of the decoded signal is scaled. Accordingly, generation of a quantization error with respect to a silence segment is reduced.
US09135922B2
The present invention provides a method for processing audio signals, and the method comprises the steps of: receiving input audio signals corresponding to a plurality of spectral coefficients; obtaining location information that indicates a location of a particular spectral coefficient among said spectral coefficients, on the basis of energy of said input signals: generating a shape vector by using said location information and said spectral coefficients; determining a codebook index by searching for a codebook corresponding to said shape vector; and transmitting said codebook index and said location information, wherein said shape vector is generated by using a part which is selected from said spectral coefficients, and said selected part is selected on the basis of said location information.
US09135919B2
A quantization device and quantization method are provided that reduce coding distortion with a small degree of calculation and achieve adequate coding performance thereby. A multistage vector quantization unit treats a number of candidates N that are designated prior to operation in the first-stage vector quantization unit, decrements the number of candidates by one beginning with the second-stage vector quantization unit and continuing with each stage thereafter. If the number of candidates is three or less, the multistage vector quantization unit assesses the quantization distortion at each stage, treating the number of candidates at the following stage as a predetermined value P if the quantization distortion is greater than a prescribed threshold, and treating the number of candidates at the following stage as a value Q that is less than the predetermined value P if the quantization distortion is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold.
US09135911B2
A system, method and program for acquiring from an input text a character string set and generating the pronunciation thereof which should be recognized as a word is disclosed. The system selects from an input text, plural candidate character strings which are phonemic character candidates or allophones to be recognized as a word; generates plural pronunciation candidates of the selected candidate character string and outputs the optimum pronunciation candidate to be recognized as a word; generates phonemic dictionary by combining data in which the pronunciation candidate with optimal recognition is respectively associated with the character strings; generates recognition data in which character strings respectively indicating plural words contained in the input speech are associated with pronunciations; and outputs a combination contained in the recognition data, out of combinations each consisting of one of the candidate character strings and the one of the pronunciations candidates with the optimum recognition.
US09135910B2
According to an embodiment, a speech synthesis device includes a first storage, a second storage, a first generator, a second generator, a third generator, and a fourth generator. The first storage is configured to store therein first information obtained from a target uttered voice. The second storage is configured to store therein second information obtained from an arbitrary uttered voice. The first generator is configured to generate third information by converting the second information so as to be close to a target voice quality or prosody. The second generator is configured to generate an information set including the first information and the third information. The third generator is configured to generate fourth information used to generate a synthesized speech, based on the information set. The fourth generator configured to generate the synthesized speech corresponding to input text using the fourth information.
US09135899B2
An adaptor for reducing acoustic ringing of a drum head of a drum having a shell and a rim includes a monolithic body having a clip portion and a contact portion, the clip portion configured to extend around an outer section of the rim between a top surface of the drum head and a bottom portion of the rim, wherein the contact portion comprises a contact surface configured to apply a pressure to a portion of the top surface of the drum head when the clip portion is coupled to the drum.
US09135889B2
A method for adjusting the characteristics of a display. The method for adjusting the characteristics of the display may include constructing color models as a function of a parameter such as temperature. Furthermore, the color model may be used to determine adjustment values to be applied to a display. The adjustment values may be organized in a table as a function of temperature and color values. The adjustment values may be determined from measurements.
US09135888B2
The systems and methods described herein disclose creating an Intensity Based Colormap by interweaving different Hues between two end points (e.g., black and white) with increasing Luminance. An Intensity Based Colormap may be used to convert Computer Input image data using a Computer Machine encoded with an Intensity Based Colormap.
US09135886B2
Process of color calibrating an electronic display screen comprising the steps of displaying at least one trial color of at least one physical sample having standardized color on an electronic display screen, visually comparing the color of the at least one physical sample and the at least one trial color displayed on the electronic display screen, selecting the trial color having the best visual match with the at least one physical sample, and using the selected trial color on the electronic display screen having the best visual match with the at least one physical sample color to color calibrate the electronic display screen.
US09135884B2
Described herein are power conservation systems and methods that reduce power consumption for an electronics device including a liquid crystal display (LCD). The LCD includes a backlight that offers multiple luminance levels, where each level consumes a different amount of power. The systems and methods alter video information while the backlight remains at a backlight luminance level. The alteration reduces luminance for the video information to produce new video information that can be presented at a lower backlight luminance level. Change to the lower backlight luminance level may then occur without significantly affecting aggregate luminance of the new video information, as perceived by a user. The LCD and electronics device consume less power at the lower luminance level.
US09135877B2
To increase the frequency of input of image signals in terms of design in a field-sequential liquid crystal display device. Image signals are concurrently supplied to pixels provided in a plurality of rows among pixels arranged in matrix in a pixel portion of the liquid crystal display device. Thus, the frequency of input of an image signal to each pixel can be increased without change in response speed of a transistor or the like included in the liquid crystal display device.
US09135875B2
Disclosed are a method, a device and a source driver for charging pixel points on a TFT-LCD substrate, which are capable of charging electrodes on an upper substrate and pixel points on a lower substrate. The charging method includes: switching on a first, second, third and fourth switches, switching off a fifth, sixth and seventh switches, and charging a first, second, third and fourth capacitors; switching off the first, second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh switches, and charging a fifth capacitor; switching off the fifth switch, switching on the first, second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh switches, so that the first capacitor stores positive six-bit pixel voltage and the fourth capacitor stores negative six-bit pixel voltage; and charging the pixel points on the lower substrate by the first and fourth capacitors, and charging the electrodes on the upper substrate by the fifth capacitor.
US09135873B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter-substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a signal line driver. The array substrate includes a signal line, a pixel electrode, and a thin-film transistor. The counter-substrate includes a common electrode. The signal line driver is configured to deliver video signals of a positive polarity and a negative polarity to the signal line. The signal line driver is configured to deliver, prior to delivering the video signals to the signal line, a precharge signal to the signal line in every 1 horizontal scanning period.
US09135869B2
In a display signal generator for use in a display device, in order to display the image corresponding to the input image signals, a combination of desired display time aperture ratios are obtained for each pixel in N number of sub-frame phases, a combination of display time aperture ratios in the N number of sub-frame phases at the time the display color is actually reproduced is set from the combination of the desired time aperture ratios on the basis of response characteristics of a pixel array unit, and a modulation signal which implements the combination of display time aperture ratios that were set is output.
US09135868B2
A direct-view display includes an array of MEMS light modulators and a control matrix formed on a transparent substrate, where each light modulator can be driven into at least two states, and a controller for controlling the states of each light modulator in the array. The control matrix transmits data and actuation voltages to the array. The controller includes an input, a processor, a memory, and an output. The input receives image data encoding an image frame for display. The processor derives a plurality of sub-frame data sets from the image data, where each sub-frame data set indicates desired states of light modulators in multiple rows and multiple columns of the array. The memory stores the plurality of sub-frame data sets. The output outputs the plurality of sub-frame data sets according to an output sequence to drive light modulators into the states indicated in the sub-frame data sets.
US09135852B2
A display includes a switching transistor connected to a scan line and data line, a driving transistor connected to the switching transistor, a storage capacitor between a voltage line and the driving transistor, and an organic light emitting diode connected to the driving transistor. The data line and voltage line are at different layers, and the data line and a gate electrode of the driving transistor are at different layers. Also, a plate of the storage capacitor and the gate electrode of the driving transistor are of a same layer, and semiconductor layers of the switching and driving transistors are of a same layer.
US09135838B2
A large scale LED display has a cable and rigid link support structure for a number of LED modules. The cable and rigid link support structure is flexible but has sufficient structural integrity to prevent misalignment of the pixel modules. The LED modules are removable from the support structure individually and as a group so as to facilitate repair of the display. The LED modules are rugged so as to withstand harsh outdoor conditions and they provide sufficient luminescence for use in sunlight.
US09135833B2
A method and network element identify a set of bit indices for forming compressed keys, which are used to map a set of keys of corresponding input values to assigned lookup values in a hash table, where the keys of the input values have colliding hash values according to a hash function of the hash table. The method includes a set of steps including receiving the set of keys. The bits of the set of keys are traversed to find a best split bit index. The set of keys are split into two subsets according to the best split bit index. A check is made whether all of the set of keys have been split into separate subsets. A selected best split bit is added to a bit index. Alternate split bits are tallied and a bit is selected with a highest tally to add to bit index.
US09135827B1
Present novel and non-trivial system, apparatus, and method for generating at least one airport surface incursion alert in a runway awareness and warning system are disclosed. A navigation data source and an airport surface data source provide navigation data and airport surface data to a surface alert generator (“SAG”). The SAG constructs a reference line based upon the airport surface data (e.g., landing threshold points, taxiway hold short lines, etc. . . . ), constructs a ground track line, determines at least one alert distance to an alert point along the ground track line if there is a reference line converging on and intersecting with the ground track line to form an alert point, and generates surface alert data if an alert time to the alert point meets an alert threshold time. The surface alert data is provided to a presentation system in which a visual alert, aural alert, and/or tactile alert is presented.
US09135824B1
Embodiments include a method for providing a red light violator warning. The method includes detecting that a first vehicle is about to violate a red light at an intersection. Based on detecting that the first vehicle is about to violate the red light at the intersection, the method includes broadcasting a warning message to all connected vehicles in proximity of the intersection of a pending red light violation and determining if the first vehicle is a connected vehicle. Based on determining that the first vehicle is a connected vehicle, the method further includes transmitting a notification message to the first vehicle warning of a pending red light violation.
US09135821B2
A mobile communications device includes a locator unit to receive and process information regarding a current location for the mobile communications device, a parking status determination unit to determine a parking status for the device based on at least changes in the current location, and a communication unit to forward the parking status to a parking community processor. A method includes determining a parking status of a vehicle associated with a person as a function of movement of a personal mobile communications device.
US09135812B1
A shortened adapter for a light bulb socket with highly overlapped male and female parts with an insulating hand-ring that extends only partially over the external surface of the adapter's female threading so it fits into the unthreaded collar of a light bulb socket, thereby significantly reducing the light bulb displacement. The shortened adapter can respond to an incoming signal and control the output of a light bulb. A reversible ring on the insulating hand-ring can change the adapter from being a dimmer to being an on-off control. A mechanism is disclosed to reversibly lock the adapter onto a light bulb. A miniature remote controller to work with the adapter is provided that has many advantages because of its very small size and compact shape. Further, one such controller can control several lights and several such controllers can control a single light in arbitrary combinations selected by the user.
US09135807B2
A system for controlling a plurality of surveillance, monitoring and security devices within a prescribed area, including a mobile transmitter device configured to transmit a wireless signal to a remote device. Where the remote device controls the area-specific systems in response to the wireless signal. The devices able to be controlled depend on the location of the mobile transmitter device and information carried by the signal. Also, a method for controlling devices within prescribed areas of a building, including monitoring a location of a mobile transmitter device within the building, receiving a wireless signal from the mobile transmitter device, and controlling specific functions of the systems based on a location of the mobile transmitter device and the information carried by the transmitted signal.
US09135805B2
A method of and system for monitoring an instance and a duration of hand-washing activity using a lightweight, wearable device including a radio frequency identification tag reader; an external communication device; an alarm device that is adapted to generate at least one of a visual, an audible, and a haptic signal; data storing device(s) having multi-dimensional movement, acceleration, and/or moment data representative of hand-washing activity; an accelerometer to measure multi-dimensional movement and acceleration of the device; a gyroscope to measure multi-dimensional movement and moment of the device; and a processing device that uses measured multi-dimensional movement, acceleration, and/or moment data to evaluate hand-washing activity by determining when hand-washing activity has begun and ended and by comparing the duration of hand-washing activity to a pre-determined minimum hand-washing requirement, to determine whether or not said hand-washing activity complies with the minimum hand-washing requirements.
US09135803B1
The method, system, and computer-readable medium causes the monitoring of a vehicle operator during the course of vehicle operation to determine whether the vehicle operator is impaired and causes a mitigating response when an impairment is determined to exist. The vehicle operator, the environment surrounding the vehicle, or forces acting on the vehicle may be monitored using a variety of sensors, including optical sensors, accelerometers, or biometric sensors (e.g., skin conductivity, heart rate, or voice modulation). When the vehicle operator is determined to be impaired, an alert or other mitigating response is implemented, based on the sensor data. In some embodiments, mitigating actions may be taken to avoid vehicle operator impairment.
US09135796B2
An intrusion detection system, that comprises a multi sensors array deployable along a physical barrier means and linkable to it in a manner that enables sensing various phenomena (one or more), typically take place when an attempted intrusion act occurs through the physical barrier means, and generation of an indication when such a phenomenon is sensed, characterized by that, that at least in one of the sensors there is installed a processing component that belongs and is specifically allocated to the sensor and enables local analyzing of the sensed phenomena within said sensor.
US09135793B1
Force feedback elements are incorporated at various points in a flight helmet. An onboard computer system identifies critical events and translates such events into a force feedback pulse applied to one or more of the force feedback elements, warning the pilot of the critical event while at the same time suppressing more conventional critical event warnings that may distract a pilot. Additionally, force feedback elements are incorporated into a vest, bodysuit or body armor. A mobile, personal computer system applies a force feedback pulse to one or more of the force feedback elements to indicate an event that might otherwise require an audible signal.
US09135787B1
A standalone Bitcoin kiosk/ATM device including a bill validator, bill dispenser, printer, one or more scanners/readers, touch screen display, processor/controller and wireless internet connection means (e.g. modem). An enrollment and security protocol involves a processor programmed to run executable instructions, said executable instructions causing said processor to facilitate: (i) receipt of a customer's mobile phone number via the user interface; (ii) transmission of a text message including a random code to the mobile phone of the customer; (iii) receipt and confirmation of the random code entered by the customer via the user interface; (iv) receipt of a PIN entered by the customer via the user interface; (v) receipt of a palm vein pattern via the biometric interface; (vi) receipt of a customer photo via the camera; and (vii) receipt of identification data including photo via the ID scanner/reader.
US09135782B2
To provide a gaming machine and a control method therefor, having a new entertainment characteristics, a slot machine 10 of the present invention, when a “BONUS” symbol 250 associated with a pick-up bonus game is selected, receives selection of any one of twenty little pig's noses 210 displayed. Then, a benefit associated with the selected little pig's nose 210 is awarded. When the benefit to be awarded is a “stick house” 218 which means “step-up”, a step-up occurs to the stick house stage and the expectation value for a payout is raised. Thus, when one little pig's nose 210 is selected out of the twenty little pig's noses 210 displayed in the stick house stage, the payout amount of the benefit associated with the little pig's nose 210 is increased.
US09135778B2
The license manager provides an automated process that reduces the need for human interaction associated with licensing components, distribution of the same, product distribution, debugging, product building, assembly, installation, configuration and maintenance. In addition, there is an interface for use by regulators that allows the regulators to test and to receive notifications from the license manager. Finally, there is a third party interface to facilitate equipment add-ons to the system. The license management system provides enablement/disablement of software products, generation and maintenance of accounting records, and logs for licenses that are generated and distributed throughout the system. An audit trail is also created that includes who authorized the purchase of the license, as well as audit trails relating to different system levels to verify system security. Finally, a change notification system provides for the control of any changes to the system and monitors these changes on a multi-tiered level within the system.
US09135774B2
A gaming machine is configured to receive a request for a location of at least one player of at least one gaming device, determine the location of the at least one player; and present on a display of the gaming machine, location information including the determined location of the at least one player. Where the gaming machine is located within a casino, the gaming machine may further be configured to present, on the display, a 3D virtual gaming environment which is a model of the casino.
US09135770B2
A method and system for predicting an estimated remaining utility usage and adjusting an alert threshold for a prepaid utility meter account includes receiving an indication of a time period of inaccessibility to replenish a prepaid utility meter account, predicting an alert trigger time when an estimated remaining utility usage for the prepaid utility meter account falls below an alert threshold, and determining that the time period of inaccessibility overlaps the predicted alert trigger time, and responsively adjusting the alert threshold such that the predicted alert trigger time occurs before the time period of inaccessibility. The method also includes receiving an indication of a business objective for a utility company and automatically adjusting the alert threshold associated with the prepaid utility meter account based on the business objective.
US09135764B2
Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data.
US09135763B2
A system and method for processing a state identifier. A request is received for a state identifier. A biometric associated with the state identifier is requested from a user. Authenticity of the biometric is verified in response to receiving the biometric from the user. The state identifier is transmitted to a receiving device in response to determining the biometric is authentic.
US09135748B2
An exemplary embodiment of the invention provides a method for producing a triangulation of a surface of a physical object the method comprising the steps of generating an intermediate mesh representation of the surface out of surface voxels (102) and detecting at least one T-junction in the intermediate mesh representation (103). The method further comprising the steps of decomposing of the at least one T-junction into at least one triangle and at least one two-point-polygon (104), and generating the triangulation of the surface out of the modelled intermediate mesh representation (107).
US09135747B2
A method for 3D reconstruction of an object based on back-scattered and sensed signals, including: generating, from the sensed signals, 3D points to which their back-scattering intensity is respectively assigned, which form a set A of reconstructed data, starting from A, extracting a set B of data, whose points are located within a volume containing the object, as a function of volume characteristics F2, starting from B, extracting a set C of data characterizing the external surface of the object, the surface having regions with missing parts, depending on an extraction criterion, based on C, filling in the regions with missing parts by generation of a three-dimensional surface so as to obtain a set D of completed data of the object, without having to use an external database, and identifying the object based on D.
US09135729B2
A method for reconstruction of a 3D volume from a set of projection images recorded by a tomography apparatus using penetrating radiation in the field of dental medical applications takes into account a given value of at least one parameter. Simulated projection images are generated which correspond to at least a subset of the recorded projection images by simulating a projection of the penetrating radiation through the reconstructed 3D volume taking into account said given value of the at least one parameter. A re-projection error is determined by comparing the simulated projection images (with the corresponding recorded projection images. The re-projection error is then minimized by changing the value of the at least one parameter and by iterating over the above steps.
US09135727B2
A computer implemented method and apparatus for reconstructing indexed color spaces. The method comprises accessing a plurality of indexed color spaces, wherein each indexed color space comprises a bit depth; and creating one or more unions of two or more indexed color spaces from the plurality of indexed color spaces, wherein the bit depth of the union of the two or more indexed color does not exceed the bit depth of any of the two or more indexed color spaces.
US09135719B1
Systems and methods are provided for generating color names for colors corresponding to images and/or palettes. A color image is obtained, and one or more color palettes corresponding to the color image are identified. The color palette may be generated based on palette generation criteria, which may facilitate or control a palette generation process. Illustratively, the palette generation process may include image pre-processing, color distribution generation, representative color identification, palette candidate generation, and palette determination. A color name for each color identified in the color palette and/or the color image can be identified based at least in part on color name popularity information. Color name popularity information may be identified from color name-related voting results provided by a social network site. Aspects of the disclosure are further directed to processing the identified color name(s), such as updating color name metadata associated with the original color image and/or the color palette.
US09135712B2
An image recognition system in a cloud environment including uploading a plurality of images to the cloud environment, preprocessing the plurality of images, determining image classifiers for each of the plurality of images, extracting the features of each of the plurality of images, storing the images, features and classifiers, determining the image classifiers and key features of an image to be recognized from a multiplatform image device, selecting from the plurality of images, images which have the same classifiers as the image to be identified, matching a best one of the selected images with the image to be identified and displaying the match on a display of the .multi-platform image device. The system further functions by performing one or more of the above in the multiplatform imaging device and/or cloud environment.
US09135711B2
A method for controlling a video segmentation apparatus is provided. The method includes receiving an image corresponding to a frame of a video; estimating a motion of an object in the received image to be extracted from the received image, determining a plurality of positions of windows corresponding to the object; adjusting at least one of a size and a spacing of at least one window located at a position of the plurality of determined positions of the windows based on an image characteristic; and extracting the object from the received image based on the at least one window of which the at least one of the size and the spacing is adjusted.
US09135706B2
An image registration apparatus comprises: a features detector (34) configured to extract a two-dimensional set of features (36) from a two-dimensional image (30) and to extract a three-dimensional set of features (38) from a three-dimensional image (32); a projection processor (40) configured to project three-dimensional data into two-dimensional projection data; and a registration processor (46, 52) configured to (i) adjust parameters to register the two-dimensional set of features and the three-dimensional set of features projected by the projection processor using a projection geometry (42), and to (ii) use the adjusted parameters to register the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional image projected by the projection processor using the projection geometry.
US09135697B2
A method is disclosed for determining a boundary surface network of the tubular object. In an embodiment, a representation of the tubular object is initially provided on the basis of image data and local dimension information is provided for points of the representation. A subdivided division structure presentation of the tubular object with division cells is then created, which based on the local dimension information, including a different spatial extent. Finally a boundary surface network is derived on the basis of the division structure presentation. Also described are a boundary surface network determination system and a division structure determination system for performing such a method.
US09135696B2
The pose of an implant represented in a medical image is determined from the medical image. The x-ray image of the implant is compared to a database of the implant viewed at different poses (e.g., viewed from different directions). The implant pose associated with the best match indicates the pose of the implant in the x-ray image.
US09135691B2
A quantitative metallographic method to measure pore sizes and pore distributions in cast aluminum components. An image of a location of interest in a cast component sample is first obtained using an image analyzer. Spacing criteria, such as a measure of the secondary dendrite arm spacing, may be used with the received image to provide evidence of pore clustering. This allows the system to performing calculations to determine if multiple pores can be clustered or grouped together as a single pore in three-dimensional space. From this, the total area of the pores in each of these groups or clusters is calculated and used as a representation of the pore area for that cluster. In general, pore size and pore distribution measurements in cast components achieved by the present invention show accurate predictions of pore size and spacing, and in particular evidence a reduced tendency to under-predict the size and distribution of actual pores.
US09135684B2
Systems and methods are provided for a method of adjusting a digital image. A low pass filtering is performed on a digital image to remove high frequency data to generate filtered image data. The digital image is divided into a plurality of regions, and a brightness level of a particular region of the digital image is identified using the filtered image data. A transformation curve is selected for the particular region based on the brightness level, and the transformation curve is applied to the particular region to generate adjusted image data for the particular region having adjusted brightness. The adjusted image data is stored in a computer-readable medium.
US09135679B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for restoring color of an input image. The method includes: separating multiple band information of a near infrared (NIR) channel from information of the input image by using a correlation between a color channel and the NIR channel in the input image; obtaining estimated invisible light band information of the NIR channel from the multiple band information of the NIR channel and estimated multiple band information of the NIR channel which is estimated from the color channel; estimating invisible light band information of the color channel based on the estimated invisible light band information of the NIR channel; and restoring a visible light band image of the color channel by removing the estimated invisible light band information of the color channel from multiple band information of the color channel included in the information of the input image.
US09135678B2
Methods and apparatus for describing a projection model, used by a panoramic image stitching module to generate panoramic images and for communicating the projection model to other processes. A post-processing module may access and use the projection model provided by the panoramic image stitching module to perform one or more post-processing methods on the panoramic image, rather than requiring the user to input the projection model via a user interface or requiring the post-processing module to estimate the projection model according to a mathematical analysis of the panoramic image.
US09135677B2
An apparatus comprising: a determination unit configured to determine whether an object image satisfies a predetermined standard, if the object image is changed to a standard image size predetermined; a changing unit configured to change the standard image size predetermined, in case that the object image does not satisfy a predetermined standard by the determination unit; a generation unit configure to change the image to the image standard image size predetermined set or the standard image size changed by the standard image size changing unit and to generate the layout image.
US09135675B2
Systems and methods for utilizing multiple graphics processing units for controlling presentations on a display are presented. In one embodiment, a dual graphics processing system includes a first graphics processing unit for processing graphics information; a second graphics processing unit for processing graphics information; a component for synchronizing transmission of display component information from the first graphics processing unit and the second graphics processing unit and a component for controlling switching between said first graphics processing unit and said second graphics processing unit. In one embodiment, the component for synchronizing transmission of display component information adjusts (e.g., delays, speeds up, etc.) the occurrence or duration of a corresponding graphics presentation characteristic (e.g., end of frame, end of line, vertical blanking period, horizontal blanking period, etc.) in signals from multiple graphics processing units.
US09135673B2
System(s) and method(s) for embedding and extracting a watermark from a digital media are described. The method may include generating a plurality of random patterns where the plurality of random patterns includes at least a primary random pattern and a secondary random pattern. The random patterns are indicative of patterns to be embedded to the digital media. The method may further include converting at least the primary random pattern and the secondary random pattern to a bipolar form. The primary random pattern and the secondary random pattern thereof are converted to a primary bipolar random pattern and a secondary bipolar random pattern. The method may also include embedding one or more of the primary bipolar random pattern and the secondary bipolar random pattern in the digital media as the watermark based on a watermark ID, where the watermark ID is a random pattern.
US09135671B2
System and methods for secured computer based assessment are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a question paper from an assessment conduction center, wherein the question paper contains dummy content having structure similar to an actual content of the question paper. A question paper metadata template containing metadata of the actual content that is generated based on the dummy content is created, and provided to the assessment conduction center for loading the actual content of the question paper in the question paper metadata template to generate an examination paper for distribution to one or more exam centers. A response of each of a plurality of aspirants corresponding to the examination paper is obtained from the one or more exam centers and said response is evaluated based on the metadata of the actual content, to generate a result for each of the plurality of aspirants.
US09135670B2
An operational reliability system includes a flight grouping module, a block modification module, and a pairing optimizer. The system evaluates potential modifications to scheduled flight block time and quantifies associated changes in on-time performance B0. The system also evaluates the impact of block modifications to headcount, regulatory compliance, operating expenses, and so forth. Via use of the operational reliability system, compliance with external regulations, for example Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR), may be achieved with a higher degree of probability.
US09135668B2
An apparatus for selecting contact center resources is provided. The apparatus includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The memory includes computer code executable with the processor. The computer code is configured to obtain one or more user characteristics; map a user point on a spatial map that includes a first resource spatial point for a first contact center resource, the user point being located at a point that spatially defines the one or more user characteristics; and determine a first distance between the user point and the first resource spatial point.
US09135666B2
Systems and methods for automatically generating targeting information for presentation of an offer in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes indexing member profiles within one or more social networks for affinity to keywords using a targeting system that retrieves data concerning member profiles and activities from servers within an online social network, identifying member profiles that have affinity for at least one offer keyword using the targeting system and the index, identifying additional keywords for which the identified member profiles have affinity using the targeting system and the index, determining a set of keywords that target a desired audience based upon the identified additional keywords using the targeting server, and targeting presentation of advertisements for the specific offer to members of an online social network using the online social network and the targeting keywords determined by the targeting server.
US09135650B2
A system that allows individuals to maintain lists of items of interest in an account, such as books, restaurants, hotels, clothes, etc. The system allows an individual to share an item in a list with another individual. When an individual wishes to share an item, the system may generate a share message to be sent by a selected method to a recipient. The share message may include a link for allowing the recipient to view the item on the system and provide a mechanism for allowing the recipient to accept or decline the share. The acceptance or, in particular, the rejection of the share establishes a positive or negative relationship between each individual and the item. The sharing of Items between individuals can be temporally and geographically mapped to identify patterns of interest, the value of an item to one or more people, or the strength of the bond between two or more people.
US09135645B2
The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for delivering a media program and purchase opportunities related to the media program to user equipment. A media program and its related merchandise information can be located at a distribution facility. The distribution facility can tailor the purchase opportunities it provides to the user equipment based on the user equipment's equipment category. When user equipment receives purchase opportunities, the user equipment can select the opportunities based on which types of merchandise are supported by the user equipment. The user equipment and/or a distribution facility may be able to determine the location of the user equipment. When the distribution facility provides merchandise information for physical merchandise to the user equipment, the merchandise information can be selected to include physical merchandise that are available for purchase at stores that are, for example, near the location of the user equipment.
US09135642B1
There is disclosed a device-based eCare solution that facilitates computerized consumer service on consumer devices. The system may include an end device, a back-end server eCare system, and a communications technology. One or more consumer eCare applications, such as balance and pricing applications, consumer assistance applications, diagnostic applications, and anticipatory applications, may be resident on the device. The end device may be configured to monitor the consumer's activity and collect and store a set of data regarding the consumer's activity. The end device may be further programmed to proactively offer the consumer a consumer eCare application based on the set of data and execute the consumer eCare application in accordance with the consumer's instructions. The system may create a collaborative environment between the device, other devices, and the back-end server eCare system. The device may intermittently communicate with other devices, the back-end server eCare system, or both, to synchronize information.
US09135636B2
The system and method for streaming media to a viewer and managing the media comprises an enhanced service routing processor (ESRP), a real time switch management system (RTSMS), a name routing processor (NRP), and a managed media switch (MMS). The RTSMS has a reservation system. The ESRP receives media from an owner, manages the media according to media rules and order rules defined by the owner, and distributes the media to one or more switches, such as the MMS, according to the media rules and the order rules. The RTSMS is configured to receive the media rules and to receive a viewer's media request via the reservation server. The reservation system of the RTSMS processes the media request according to the media rules and builds a reservation for the requested media. The RTSMS generates the reservation to the viewer and to the NRP. The NRP receives the reservation data from the viewer and from the RTSMS. The NRP processes the reservation data and locates an MMS that can stream the media to the viewer. The NRP transmits the IP address of the MMS to the viewer and transmits the reservation data to the MMS. The viewer initiates a session or connection with the MMS using the reservation number. If the reservation data from the viewer matches the reservation data from the NRP, the MMS streams the media to the viewer.
US09135635B2
The system and method for streaming media to a viewer and managing the media comprises an enhanced service routing processor (ESRP), a real time switch management system (RTSMS), a name routing processor (NRP), and a managed media switch (MMS). The RTSMS has a reservation system. The ESRP receives media from an owner, manages the media according to media rules and order rules defined by the owner, and distributes the media to one or more switches, such as the MMS, according to the media rules and the order rules. The RTSMS is configured to receive the media rules and to receive a viewer's media request via the reservation server. The reservation system of the RTSMS processes the media request according to the media rules and builds a reservation for the requested media. The RTSMS generates the reservation to the viewer and to the NRP. The NRP receives the reservation data from the viewer and from the RTSMS. The NRP processes the reservation data and locates an MMS that can stream the media to the viewer. The NRP transmits the IP address of the MMS to the viewer and transmits the reservation data to the MMS. The viewer initiates a session or connection with the MMS using the reservation number. If the reservation data from the viewer matches the reservation data from the NRP, the MMS streams the media to the viewer.
US09135630B2
Systems and methods for accepting relationship indications based on interaction among entities, where each relationship indication specifies that a respective pair of the entities may be related. A single entity record may be constructed that indicates all the linked entities that have been identified as being related to the entity. The entities may include an individual, a set of individuals, a communication terminal, a plurality of communication terminals, an organization, an e-mail address, a Web-site, a bank account and a home address. An analytics operation may performed, such as identifying a shortest sequence of interrelated entities that relate a first entity with a second entity, and acting upon the identified sequence.
US09135627B2
A system and method are disclosed for presenting on-line survey invitations to users over a network. The system selectively presents survey invitations to users in accordance with a survey recruitment definition associated with a tag embedded within a Web page (node) downloaded and executed on a user computer. A particular survey is selected from a set of presently active surveys applied by a survey logic server to received requests based upon a category (node ID) provided by a user computer in accordance with the execution of logic contained in the survey recruitment definition.
US09135625B1
The present invention relates generally to identifying fraudulent businesses and business listings. More specifically, the invention relates to determining a “surprisingness” value for a particular combination of words in a business title based on the likelihood that the combination has appeared in legitimate business titles. The value may be used to determine whether the business or business listing is legitimate or fraudulent. For example, third party hijackers may “keyword-stuff” business titles or attempt to include words associated with prominent businesses in a title of a less prominent business associated with the third party in order to have the less prominent business displayed more often in search results for the prominent business. For example, if a business title has too many surprising word combinations or a particular combination is highly unlikely, the business listing is likely to be fraudulent or “keyword-stuffed” and may be withheld, excluded, removed from search results.
US09135617B2
In one example embodiment, a card payment system includes a card payment apparatus, having an audio jack, configured to: read account information stored on a payment card, encode a counter value of the card payment apparatus into a onetime password, transmit the account information and onetime password via a microphone contact of the audio jack, and receive an acoustic signal via at least one earphone contact of the audio jack; and a client device, having an audio jack socket to receive the audio jack, configured to: receive the account information and onetime password via the microphone contact, transmit, to the card payment apparatus, the acoustic signal via the at least one earphone contact, decode the onetime password into the counter value, and authenticate the card payment apparatus based on the counter value of the card payment apparatus and a counter value of the client device.
US09135616B2
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate online transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a communication interface to receive an input from a merchant; a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of controllers for delivery of premium messages sent by the system to collect funds for purchases made by customers; and a common format processor coupled with the plurality of converters to send the premium messages. The common format processor determines a combination of one or more premium messages, in response to a first customer making a first purchase from the merchant at a first price. The total price of the one or more premium messages is based on the first price and a portion of service charges associated with the one or more premium messages, where the portion is specified by the input received via the interface.
US09135611B1
A system, method, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing financial transactions by controlling the purchase of allowed and disallowed purchase items. A transaction control card is used to purchase a purchase item. Account information related to the transaction control card and purchase item data related to the purchase item is then processed to determine whether the purchase item is disallowed for purchase by any single, or combination of, disallowed purchase item data parameters.
US09135608B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for managing medical information. Certain embodiments provide a local electronic medical record system including a local personal health record (PHR) client, the PHR client downloading encrypted patient documents from a remote PHR server and parsing the downloaded encrypted patient documents to form a local PHR database. The example system also includes an interface receiving user input including an encryption key to decrypt the downloaded encrypted patient documents and displaying patient medical information to the user based on the downloaded decrypted patient documents.
US09135605B2
Real time communication is discussed that may be initiated and maintained from within an web-based application without leaving the context of the underlying application. Within the web-based application, a web frame or portlet is displayed that can maintain a separate and independent communication channel with a data resource and other external resources. When activated by a user of the web application, the web frame or portlet establishes a communication link with an external resource and another party that will take part in a communication exchange. The interaction between the user and the other participant are displayed from within and/or processed by the web frame or portlet without affecting the state of the underlying web application.
US09135595B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing high-load business process scalability in cloud-based infrastructures. One process includes operations for receiving a message at a first computer node executing a first business process instance. A second business process instance associated with the message is identified. The message is sent to a messaging queue for retrieval by the second business process instance if the second business process instance is not located at the first computer node.
US09135590B1
A completion time is obtained for each phase of a plurality of phases in a user story. Completion times of phases are obtained for each user story of a plurality of user stories. A maximum completion time, a minimum completion time and a composite metric are determined for phases common among the user stories. A chart displays the phases common among the user stories over the sprint time period. Sprint time period is used to define a first axis and phase completion time is used to define a second axis. A vertical bar is displayed for each respective phase, parallel with the second axis, having a top end on the second axis based on a maximum completion time for the respective phase and a bottom end on the second axis based on a minimum completion time.
US09135585B2
A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a property library, a property list template, a quantity conversion virtual object, and/or a supplier property specification business object.
US09135579B2
Method and system for ordering, loading and using tickets ordered from a reservation center through transmission of order data that includes a number assigned to a mobile communications terminal. The ordered ticket is received via a mobile radio network at the mobile communications terminal, and the ticket is stored. A reading device receives ticket information contactlessly from the mobile communications terminal, and an authorization of a user of the mobile communications terminal is decided based on the ticket information.
US09135573B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a reputation system. The reputation system includes a statistical model associated with a set of items and a set of dimensions of the items in the reputation system, wherein the statistical model is trained using a positive class and a negative class. The reputation system also includes a scoring apparatus that applies the statistical model to a set of features for each of the items to estimate a set of reputation scores for the items. Finally, the reputation system includes a ranking apparatus that enables use of the set of reputation scores in the reputation system.
US09135572B2
A method and arrangement for processing data when training a data model involving multiple iterations of data records in a dataset (400c, 606) stored in a database (400, 600). Memory space (400d, 608) is allocated in the database for maintaining the data model during the training operation. The data records in the dataset are read (4:3) directly from the database for each iteration, and the data model is trained (4:4) inside the database by repeatedly applying the read data records in the training operation and updating (4:5) the data model. It is also checked (4:6) whether the updated data model has converged according to a predefined convergence condition. The data model is eventually saved (4:7) once the data model has converged.
US09135565B1
Data are maintained in a distributed computing system that describe a directed graph representing relationships among items. The directed graph has a plurality of vertices representing the items and has edges with values representing distances between the items connected by the vertices. A multiple reference point algorithm is executed for a plurality of the vertices in the directed graph in parallel for a series of synchronized iterations to determine shortest distances between the vertices and the source vertex. After executing the algorithm on the vertices, value pairs associated with the vertices are aggregated. The aggregated value pairs indicate shortest distances from the respective vertices to the source vertex. The aggregated value pairs are outputted.
US09135562B2
The system and method of the present invention are described for automatic detection of error in the entry of particular category of individuals, especially referring to gender and age classification either real time while creating a database of such information or on an existing database on the record of individuals by analyzing their biometric characteristics like speech, image or face and other related demographic information like name of the individual in order to accord each individual with a unique identification.
US09135558B1
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving aggregate user data, the aggregate user data corresponding to response rate of one or more answering users responding to requests, processing the aggregate user data to generate an analytical model, the analytical model describing a probability that an average answering user will respond to a request based on response rates of one or more time intervals, receiving a request, identifying a plurality of answering users, processing the analytical model to identify a sub-set of answering users of the plurality of answering users, and transmitting the request to each answering user of the sub-set of answering users.
US09135556B2
Methods and systems are provided for evaluating standing queries against updated contact entries configured as a stream of facts. The method includes resolving the standing queries into an array of rules, each rule having a first and a second condition; sorting t one of the facts into a first property and a second property; comparing the first property of the fact to the first condition of each rule in the array of rules to produce a first subset of matching rules; comparing the second property of the fact to the second condition of each rule in the first subset of rules to produce a second subset of matching rules; and reporting at least one of the second subset of rules to an author of the matching rule. The method further includes populating a first hash with indicia of the first subset, and populating a second hash with the second subset.
US09135550B2
A wireless IC device includes a radiating plate, a wireless IC chip, and a feeder circuit board, on which the wireless IC chip is mounted. The feeder circuit board includes a resonant circuit with an inductance element, and the resonant circuit is electromagnetically coupled with the radiating plate. The wireless IC chip is interposed between the radiating plate and the feeder circuit board.
US09135543B2
Systems and methods related to three-dimensional coding are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for encoding data is described that includes generating a pattern in a substrate. The pattern includes elements and each element has one of an aperture or a protrusion. The aperture or protrusion has unique x, y coordinates within the pattern. The method also includes varying a depth of at least one element. The varied depth encodes data.
US09135531B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a conveyer system, a liquid discharge head with a plurality of nozzles arranged in rows in different positions from one another with reference to a conveying direction at least within a part, a transmitter unit to transmit the image-forming data to the liquid discharge head, a receiver unit to receive the image-forming data, an image-forming data storage unit to store the image-forming data, an error detecting unit to detect a transmission error in the image-forming data, and a controller unit to manipulate the transmitter unit, the liquid discharge head, and the conveying system. The image-forming data with the transmission error detected therein for forming dots in pixel areas in liquid discharged from the nozzles, which are arranged in one of the rows closer to an upstream position with reference to the conveying direction, is transmitted preferentially.
US09135526B2
Method of extraction of information of interest to multi-dimensional, multi-parametric and/or multi-temporal datasets related to a same object under observation through data fusion, in which a plurality of different data sets are provided concerning a single object, with the data related to various parameters and/or different time acquisition instants of said parameters. The data set are subjected to a first processing step by principal component analysis generated by an identical number of datasets with transformed data; and each of the datasets is combined in non-linearly with the corresponding transformed data set to obtain a certain predetermined number of combinations of parameters by weighing using parameters determined empirically using training datasets which determine the values of the non-linear weighting parameters that maximize the value of the new features associated with the data of interest, as compared to those of other data.
US09135509B2
A video comprises at least one shot (SH), which is a continuous sequence of images representing a scene viewed from a particular location. Images are selected from a shot (SH) so as to obtain a continuous sequence of selected images (SI) that are evenly distributed throughout the shot. At least one continuous subsequence (SB1, SB2, SB3) of selected images that meet a predefined similarity test is identified. An image is selected from a continuous portion (SP) of the shot that coincides in time with the longest continuous subsequence (SB2) of selected images that meet the predefined similarity test. The image that is selected constitutes a representative image (RI) for the shot.
US09135505B2
Automatic generation of a mosaic comprising a plurality of geospatial images. An embodiment of the automatic mosaic generation may include automated source image selection that includes comparison of source images to base layer image to determine radiometric similar source images. Additionally, an embodiment of an automatic cutline generator may be provided to automatically determine a cutline when merging two images such that radiometric differences between the images along the cutline are reduced. In this regard, less perceivable outlines may be provided. Further still, an embodiment of a radiometric normalization module may be provided that may determine radiometric adjustments to source images to match certain properties of the base layer image. In some embodiments, when processing source images, the source images may be downsampled during a portion of the processing to reduce computational overhead. Additionally, some highly parallel computations may be performed by a GPU to further enhance performance.
US09135502B2
The invention relates to a method for the real-time-capable, computer-assisted analysis of an image sequence of an object consisting of elements that can be moved relative to each other and are interconnected, said sequence containing a variable pose, wherein the individual images of the image sequence are recorded by way of a time-of-flight (TOF) camera such that said images can be processed by a computer, and contain brightness and distance data as functions of the pixel coordinates of the camera for each image of the sequence, comprising the following steps: a. Capturing the pixels of an individual image forming the object, b. calculating a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud in a virtual space, said point cloud representing the surface of the object that is visible to the camera, by a computational projection of object-depicting pixels in such a space, while taking captured distance data to the object into consideration, c. fitting a model of the object consisting of nodes and edges into the computer-generated 3D point cloud for the individual images, wherein the nodes represent a selection of elements of the object and the edges represent the connections of said elements amount each other, d. iteratively updating all node positions by applying a learning rule for training a self-organizing map having a previously defined number of randomly selected dots of the point cloud, e. repeating steps a. to d. for each subsequent individual image of the sequence, wherein for the fitting in step c. the result of step e. of the preceding image is used in each case, and f. determining the varying pose from the positions of predetermined nodes of the model which have been captured in at least representative images of the image sequence.
US09135499B2
Predictive theft notifications are used to coordinate appropriate responses to persons who are likely to commit acts of theft. Image data is generated and processed in a computer processing device to recognize the presence of a facial image comprising a face of a person. An analysis is performed of data representative of the facial image to determine a biometric match relative to one or more biometric models of facial images stored in a database. Based on this analysis, at least one predictive notification is generated with regard to a future potential theft of merchandise from the secured facility. The predictive notification is generated based upon a determination of the biometric match.
US09135495B1
An apparatus comprises a fingerprint sensor having a set of capacitive elements configured for capacitively coupling to a user fingerprint. The fingerprint sensor may be disposed under a control button or display element of an electronic device, for example one or more of a control button and a display component. A responsive element is responsive to proximity of the user fingerprint, for example one or both of a first circuit responsive to motion of the control button, and a second circuit responsive to a coupling between the fingerprint and a surface of the display element. The fingerprint sensor is disposed closer to the fingerprint than the responsive element. The control button or display component may include an anisotropic dielectric material, for example sapphire.
US09135492B2
A system and method include obtaining an image of an analog dial gauge. The image is processed to identify an endpoint of the gauge and a needle position in the image. A reading of the gauge is determined from the endpoint, the needle position, and information regarding the range of the gauge.
US09135483B2
There is set forth herein an indicia reading terminal having data format conversion capabilities. The indicia reading terminal includes an image sensor integrated circuit with an image sensor array comprising a plurality of pixels. The image sensor integrated circuit is configured to output image data in a first data format to a data formatting circuit for conversion to image data in a second data format. The data formatting circuit is configured to provide the image data in the second data format to the at least one data interface of a microprocessor integrated circuit, which is operative to transfer image data received by the at least one data interface into memory of the indicia reading terminal. A CPU of the microprocessor integrated circuit is operative for executing a decoding algorithm for processing image data in the memory for attempting to decode at least one symbol represented in the memory.
US09135482B2
A mobile dispensing cart having a plurality of locked drawers has medical articles stored therein for particular patients. The storage drawers have sizes wherein the resonant frequency of the sizes does not match the frequency of operation of the RFID system of the cart. Faraday cages and enclosures are used in the storage areas that provide robust RFID fields for exciting and reading RFID tags. An HCP for a particular patient obtains access to the drawers and opens a drawer. An RFID scanning system takes an inventory of the cart after the drawer is closed to determine if any medical article was taken, and if so which one. The identified taken article is compared to the data base of medical articles stored in the cart for the patient and if the taken article does not match the patient data base, an alarm is provided.
US09135476B2
A method for producing a radio frequency identification transponder includes providing a conductive sheet covered by a mask layer, processing the mask layer by a laser beam so as to form an exposed portion of the conductive sheet, wherein the processing is carried out after a radio frequency identification chip has been attached to the conductive sheet, and etching the exposed portion so as to form a groove in the conductive sheet, wherein the groove defines an edge of an antenna element of the transponder.
US09135472B2
Processor system with a general purpose processor and a cryptographic processor dedicated to performing cryptographic operations and enforcing the security of critical security parameters. The cryptographic processor prevents exposure of critical security parameters outside the cryptographic processor itself, and instead implements a limited scripting engine, which can be used by the general purpose processor to execute operations that require the critical security parameters.
US09135468B2
There is disclosed an image forming apparatus to which one or more programs can be added. The image forming apparatus includes a managing part configured to manage access authorization information set for each of groups into which the programs are categorized, a displaying part configured to display a setting screen in which access authorization setting information is set in correspondence with each of the programs, a changing part configured to change a range of access authorization granted to the programs according to access authorization change information, the access authorization change information including definitions of change information corresponding to the access authorization setting information set in the setting screen, and a determining part configured to determine whether the access authorization can be granted to the programs.
US09135465B2
Systems and methods for protecting a data item include, upon initiation of transfer of the data item from a server to a client device, determining a sensitivity score and a current protection level of the data item. A policy is applied to determine an appropriate protection for the data item based upon the sensitivity score and the current protection level. A protected data item is provided to the client device by applying the appropriate protection to the data item.
US09135464B2
The present invention relates to a system for distributed data storage that ensures the safety of the user data. In particular, the system of the present invention provides that the data stored in a cloud storage service are encrypted and their cryptographic keys are created from a remote device. In the context of the present invention, cloud is a set of servers that form an online service over the Internet, these servers are invisible to the user of the service pretending they form only a single server, thus forming a “cloud servers”. These keys will be divided and stored in cloud storage part and part on other devices.
US09135451B2
A data connection of a shared resource is placed in isolation mode to remove its ability to communicate with other data connections of the shared resource. This ability to isolate the data connection is dynamic in that it can be turned on/off at any time. This provides increased data security for the entities using the data connection.
US09135442B1
A computer-implemented method for detecting an obfuscated executable may include identifying an executable file programmed to execute on a target architecture. The method may also include disassembling a first section of the executable file and determining whether the first section of the executable file comprises a valid instruction. The method may further include determining, based on whether the first section of the executable file comprises a valid instruction, whether the executable file poses a security risk. Various other methods, computer-readable media, and systems are also disclosed.
US09135437B1
Techniques for restricting the execution of algorithms contained in applications executing on virtual machines executing within a computer system are described herein. A first sampled set of computer executable instructions is gathered from a virtual machine by a controlling domain and compared against a reference set of computer executable instructions. If the first set is similar to the reference set, and if the execution of the algorithm corresponding to the reference set is restricted by one or more computer system polices, one or more operations limiting the execution of the restricted algorithm are performed, thus ensuring conformance with the computer system policies.
US09135436B2
An approach to securing an execution stack (or cloud architecture) is provided. For example, an image is separated into a plurality of layers to form a trusted execution stack. Each of the plurality of layers is hardened to secure key cloud components of the trusted execution stack.
US09135428B2
A cross system secure logon in a target system by using a first authentication system and a second authentication system. A correct password may be valid on the first authentication system and the second authentication system. An aspect includes receiving an input password, generating a first hash key by using the first authentication system, and/or generating a second hash key by using the second authentication system, wherein each authentication system uses a system unique non-collision free hash algorithm. Further, in one aspect, comparing the first hash key with a first predefined hash key of the correct password stored in the first authentication system, and/or comparing the second hash key with a second predefined hash key of the correct password stored in the second authentication system. Furthermore, granting access to the target system based on at least one of the comparisons.
US09135427B2
Authentication in a system includes presenting information to a user containing a partial sequence of a passcode along with distractors. The user is challenged to identify the partial sequence from among the information in order to gain access to the system.
US09135420B2
Biometric data-driven application of vehicle operations is implemented by a scanner, a computer processor communicatively coupled to the scanner over a vehicle network, and logic executable by the computer processor. The logic receives, from the scanner over the vehicle network, biometric data for an operator of a vehicle and compares the biometric data from the scanner to sets of biometric data stored in a memory device of the vehicle. Upon determining that the biometric data from the scanner matches one of the sets of biometric data stored in the memory device, the logic retrieves operational settings configured for the operator and implements at least one action to achieve a result defined by the operational settings.
US09135418B2
A method for generating a secure application is described herein. The method can include the steps of obtaining a target application and decomposing the target application into original files that contain predictable instructions. One or more predictable instructions in the original files may be identified. In addition, the target application may be modified to create the secure application by binding one or more intercepts to the target application. These intercepts can enable the modification of the predictable instructions in accordance with one or more policies such that the behavior of the secure application is different from the original behavior of the target application. Modification of the target application may be conducted without access to the source code of the target application.
US09135412B1
Systems and methods of token-based protection for remote resources are disclosed. For example, a method may include receiving, at a second computing device, a configuration message from a first computing device. The configuration message includes information to configure a resource at the second computing device. For example, the resource may be a cloud transcoder. The method also includes generating, at the second computing device, a short token that enables the first computing device to access the resource. For example, the short token may be used to receive a long token that can be used to send application programming interface (API) requests to the cloud transcoder.
US09135409B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to distributing updated execution information to a cluster of nodes. Licensing information about whether the nodes are licensed to receive the updated execution information is generated. The licensing information is validated. The validated licensing information is used to distribute the updated execution information to the nodes.
US09135398B2
According to another example, a wearable medical device controller is provided. The device controller includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to determine a correlation between a phenomenon identifiable by the wearable medical device controller and at least one response pattern associated with a patient and store, responsive to detecting the correlation, an adaptation path to address the at least one response pattern, the adaptation path specifying an adaptation of at least one characteristic of an alarm. The at least one response pattern may include a plurality of response patterns and the adaptation path may reflect adaptations made to address at least some of the plurality of response patterns.
US09135382B1
Systems and methods for functionally verifying the performance of a system on a chip (SOC) are provided herein. According to some embodiments, the methods may include at least the steps of analyzing a verification log, via a functional verification system, to determine signatures by correlating a pattern of at least one of triggered and untriggered assertions in one or more blocks of a plurality of blocks to behaviors of at least one of the SOC and the one or more blocks of the plurality of blocks. Exemplary methods also include categorizing signatures according to the behaviors, and storing similar signatures based upon the categorization in a database.
US09135380B2
A computerized method for simulating a high-viscosity fluid in a chamber is disclosed, wherein a model of the fluid is set in a model of the chamber and a flow calculation is performed. In the flow calculation, with respect to a contact surface of a wall of the chamber model with which the fluid model contacts, a slip velocity of the fluid model is defined by specific equations.
US09135379B2
A multi-zonal analysis processor-implemented system is provided for analyzing physical behavior of a multi-zonal physical object. Candidate multi-zonal engineering models, solution methods, and parameters associated with the engineering models and solution methods are selected for use in analyzing different zones of the physical object.
US09135378B2
The invention relates to a method of developing an underground reservoir, notably a petroleum reservoir, traversed by at least a first well from which a fluid is produced, wherein a position of at least a second well to be drilled is determined by means of a production indicator map comprising a set of cells, each cell being associated with a production indicator defining an impact, on the fluid production, of a well addition in this cell. The method comprises constructing the map by: a) determining production indicators on a first group of cells of the map; b) determining production indicators on a second group of cells of the map; c) interpolating said production indicators on all the cells of the map; and defining the position of the second well by the cell where the production indicator is maximal.
US09135374B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to preparing models of three-dimensional structures. In particular, a model of a three-dimensional structure constructed of porous geometries is prepared. A component file including a porous CAD volume having a predefined portion of a boundary. A space including the porous CAD volume is populated with unit cells overlapping the predefined portion of the boundary. The unit cells are populated with porous geometries having a plurality of struts having nodes on each end. At least a first strut overlaps the predefined portion of the boundary and has a length, a first node outside the porous CAD volume, and a second node inside the porous CAD volume. All struts entirely outside the porous CAD volume are removed. After removal of the struts entirely outside the porous CAD volume, each of the remaining struts is connected to a node at each end thereof.
US09135373B1
Disclosed are improved methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an interface for visualizing, generating, and optimizing an I/O ring arrangement for an electronic design. A ribbon-based interface may be employed to visually see and control the design of the I/O ring.
US09135371B2
A method and system for contextual browsing of videos that are relevant to a current video. Browsing controls that include labels and previews are presented in a user interface. The labels represent sets of videos that are organized according to their relevancy to a current video. The previews represent videos from a set of videos that is currently in focus. If the user switches focus from one set of videos to another set of videos, the previews are updated to correspond to the videos in the second set of videos. The user can also browse through the previews in order to select another video for playback.
